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  • Web Forms Model Binding Part 3: Updating and Validation (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

    Web Forms Model Binding Part 3: Updating and Validation (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

    Oct 11
    31

    This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET 4.5 you’ll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC – as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post is the third of three posts in the series that talk about the new Model Binding support coming to Web Forms. Model Binding is an extension of the ...

  • Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Alpha - NuGet Package of the Week #10

    Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Alpha - NuGet Package of the Week #10

    Jul 11
    28

    Hot on the heels of my RFC blog post on product versioning, the Entity Framework team has released Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Migrations: August 2011 CTP. Cool. And it's July, too! Or my preferred product name, Migrating Magic Unicorns 0.5. It's probably best to think of this as 0.5 Alpha Migrations for EF but that's my guess at a name and not nearly as descriptive. I showed early daily builds of EF Migrations at a few conferences recently, and encouraged folks to comment on the ADO...

  • Announcing Entity Framework Code-First (CTP5 release)

    Announcing Entity Framework Code-First (CTP5 release)

    Dec 10
    08

    This week the data team released the CTP5 build of the new Entity Framework Code-First library. EF Code-First enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Develop without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file Define model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without explicitly configuring anyt...

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