Jonathan Bruce

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EF 4.0 v NHibernate
Some recommended reading for those of you who are looking at what NHibernate 2.0 offers in comparison to Entity Framework 4.0. While it is a fairly subjective view point...
Jonathan Bruce January 08, 2010
2010 Predictions
Annual prognostications are typically overly optimistic, so for 2010’s soothsaying I’ve opted for a more pragmatic approach.
  • Austerity drives innovations in doing more with less – The 2009 budgetary hangovers while I expect to less restrictive this year, will drive nearly all purchasing...
  • Jonathan Bruce January 04, 2010
    Effective EF for Oracle - Visual Studio 2010

    Since the announcement of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 we have seen torrent of requests from people looking to use our Oracle EF provider with VS 2010. The good news is...

    Jonathan Bruce December 18, 2009
    Effective EF - Entity Framework Tips from Microsoft
    Alex James from Microsoft has an excellent series of Entity Framework tips, that offer generic best practices on how programming effectively with the Entity Framework. Although some of his tips focus on EF4, there's...
    Jonathan Bruce September 30, 2009
    Effective Oracle and EF – SQL Server to Oracle Migrations (I)
    Early on in our EF development cycles, I gave our .NET QA team an unusual challenge:- Spin up our test suites in readiness for our upcoming ADO.NET Entity Framework support for Oracle, except without an pre-QA ADO.NET EF provider ready for Oracle. Our excellent QA got to work and built our the...
    Jonathan Bruce September 28, 2009
    Effective EF with Oracle – Console and ASP.NET Starter Kits

    Continuing our theme of how to get up and running with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Oracle we've put together a set of samples and how-to's for common Visual Studio tasks – console and ASP.NET applications. We've included download samples as...

    Jonathan Bruce September 25, 2009
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