The Book, The Training


Julie Lerman is recognized as the foremost expert outside of Microsoft on Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework.

Julie is available to mentor your company whether you are trying to choose a data access platform or are ready to implement Entity Framework into your architecture.

Reviews of Programming Entity Framework, 1st Edition:

"... extract real value from the EF now. "

Danny Simmons, Dev Manager for the Entity Framework Team

Programming Entity Framework is one of the best technical books I've seen in quite a long time.
Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Development Community Liaison and Author
Julie has done an amazingly comprehensive job covering all aspects of using the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This is sure to become the canonical reference book on the subject.
Bob Beauchemin, Developer Skills Partner, SQLskills
"Whatever your view of the technology, though, you need to get this book if you care at all about the area." read full review
David Chappell, .NET Industry Guru

"One of the best ways to learn about the Entity Framework..." read full review
Scott Mitchell, MSDN Magazine, July 2009

 

Modified Description of Adding Inheritance into T4 Template from Chapter 18

Friday, August 20 2010        

This is in reference to Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition When I originally wrote the directions for modifying the T4 template in Chapter 18 (Using POCOs and Self-Tracking Entities in WCF Services), I was working with the “almost” RTM version of the Microsoft’s POCO T4 template. Since my modified...

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Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition Ebook Available

Tuesday, August 10 2010        
The book went to the printer on August 5th! The ebook is already available on the publisher's website at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807252 The printed version of the book should begin shipping by August 20th!

Hard Core EF4 with Julie Lerman, London Oct 22

Tuesday, August 10 2010        

Hard Core EF4 Full Day of Advanced Entity Framework 4 Workshop with Julie Lerman Register: hardcoreef4.eventbrite.com You’ve been working with Entity Framework 3.5 or maybe even Entity Framework 4, but are ready to take your EF4 code further. You’ve got nagging questions and wish you could...

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Entity Framework Firestarter NYC Mon, Sept 27

Tuesday, August 10 2010        

Entity Framework NYC Firestarter This full-day event is FREE When: Monday Sept 27th, 8am - 6pm Where: Microsoft Office, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York City Register: effirestarter.eventbrite.com Current Agenda (this agenda is currently a work in progress...) Intro (why ef / overview) – Julie...

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2nd Edition (EF4) Table of Contents

Saturday, May 29 2010        

We are closing in on finalizing the 2nd edition of Programming Entity Framework! Although the rough draft chapters are already available through Safari’s Rough Cuts program (here: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807252 ) I have been editing and reshaping the content since those chapters were...

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Hard Core EF4 Stockholm June 24 2010

Sunday, May 23 2010        

Registration Details Coming Soon! Hard Core EF4 Full Day of Advanced Entity Framework 4 Workshop with Julie Lerman You’ve been working with Entity Framework 3.5 or maybe even Entity Framework 4, but are ready to take your EF4 code further. You’ve got nagging questions and wish you could just...

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News about the 2nd Edition

Wednesday, April 28 2010        

Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (based on the RTM of VS2010/.NET 4.0) is currently available on Safari Rough Cuts at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807252 . This is a complete rewrite of the book and includes not only the new features of Entity Framework, but chapters on unit testing, building...

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Beach Reading?

Tuesday, August 18 2009        

Jason Haley sent me this picture that he took on a beach on Cape Cod. Apparently Jason does not know the meaning of light beach reading! At least some part of me is enjoying summer beach weather! I love how the book cover and towel’s color’s sync up....

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Here I go again! Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (for EF4)

Monday, August 10 2009        

Well, it’s official. I’ve gone completely mad and just sent a signed contract back to O’Reilly for the rewrite of my book, Programming Entity Framework. With such big changes to Entity Framework, I could not let the current version of the book fade away, even though so much of it will remain valid through...

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Short Video about my book on Amazon.com

Thursday, August 06 2009        

No, it’s not a video producer now. :-) My publisher, O’Reilly Media , asked me to make a short video about my book. They pointed me to the Amazon page for another book which has a video as a model for me, Getting Started with Arduino . So I spent some time creating a similar video for my book, first...

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