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AngleBrackets Day 2 Wrapup - I Got Friends in Lowy Places

The second day of AngleBrackets was another productive day for me. It also (accidentally, I swear!) turned out to have a lot of Juval Lowy and his project design courses, so the more technically-inclined people out there may want to skip to Day 3. The rest of you, anyone who

AngleBrackets Day 1 Wrapup - MVC, Project Design, and Interviews

My colleague Jim and I are attending the AngleBrackets [https://anglebrackets.org] conference here in Phoenix. It's the first conference I've ever been to, and I'm loving every minute of it. If you ever get a chance to attend one of these conferences, friggin jump on it! It's a wonderful

Creating a Model-First Model in Entity Framework

In the first installment of this series [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-for-beginners-creating-a-database-first-model] , we set up a new EDMX context for our Northwind database using a methodology known as Database-First (an astonishingly descriptive name, don't you think?). In this post, we're going to build our own model using a new Context

Ever Feel Like An Impostor? Good.

Ever felt like you were an impostor? Like you were just pretending to know what you know, that you obviously were not as smart as you think [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/you-are-not-as-smart-as-you-think-you-are/], and eventually everyone would find out and expose you like the fake faking faker you are? Good. I've

Creating a Database-First Model in Entity Framework

Entity Framework (EF) is the preferred data access solution and Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) from Microsoft. There are three methodologies you can pick from when building an EF model: Database-First, Model-First, and Code-First. In this post, we'll explore creating a Database-First model using an EDMX designer file. What is Entity Framework?

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