Programming Entity Framework

Nearly three years ago, I wrote the following blog post: Reason # 4218 why I don't think I'll ever write a book From Chris Sells' blog: Then Mike read all 1300 pages, making sure that the copy editor didn't change the meaning of anything. With the PDFs in hand, we both read the ~1000 pages again (the...

While I was writing my book ( Programming Entity Framework ), I kept track of the page count in a spreadsheet. But I stopped counting a few months ago when the first draft of was nearly done. At that point, I still had to write the intro chapter (chapter 1) and the preface, add most of the C# code and...

I just noticed that 6 more chapters are available on the Rough Cuts site for my book, Programming Entity Framework. Advanced Entity Data Models Implementing Stored Procedures: Beyond the Basics Entities in Web and WCF Services Relationships and Associations Making it Real: Connections, Transactions,...

A reader of the Rough Cuts edition of my book, with only 9 chapters out of 23 available so far, was not able to find the database scripts for the book's sample databases and because of this, to my great dismay, placed a 2-star review of the book on the O'Reilly site. Boy does that sting! The good news...

While the entire book is now in production, so far Chapters 2-9 have made it into the RoughCuts version. Here's a full chapter list. THere are still "working titles" on a few of the chapters. 1. Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework 2. EDM Basics 3. Foundations of Querying 4. More Querying (yes, this...

I have received an email from O'Reilly to let me know that the Rough Cuts version of my book is now online . Currently you will find a handful of the chapters from the early part of the book. These are introductory chapters about the model, querying, stored procs and using EF for databinding in WinForms...

As we begin the push of getting my book, Programming Entity Framework, towards production, it is still going to be a number of months before it is out in print. Currently, OReilly is targeting January 2009. But why wait for paper (and the perfection of the final edits)? We've decided to take my work...

O'Reilly has us .NET authors going to the birds. And I've got a Seychelles Blue Pigeon . You can pre-order the book on Amazon.com ....

Here's a little sidebar from my book that I think is pretty important. Return Results, not Queries from the Business classes While you can get away with binding a query when working directly in the code behind of an ASP.NET page, remember that the query’s job is to be executed and return results. Query...

One of the most tedious steps of writing my book is doing the spell checking when I finish a chapter. While there are certainly plenty of honest to goodness typos, there are a lot of things that pop up on the radar - things like field and property names, class, function and method names, words that are...