Yeah, I know its expected that when a product is in beta and its ancillary features are released in a CTP that there will be some "interesting" issues in getting set up. But its getting a bit out of control (in a good way) lately with all of the installations related to the Entity Framewor

If you have tried the "Update Model from Database" feature in the Entity Framework's EDM tool (latest version is the EDM CTP 2) you probably have noticed that it currently does not fully update the DB model as well as you hoped. I know I got excited when I first saw the feature, but qu

I've been using the EntityBag concept that Danny Simmons has been posting [http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/archive/2008/01/20/entitybag-part-ii-modes-and-constructor.aspx] for a while now. One of the neat aspects of the EntityBag is its automatic mode settings. As I was explaining this to someon

I've been downloading a new set of EAP bits for ReSharper 4 [http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+4.0+Nightly+Builds] once a week since they opened access to the nightly builds and it really its coming together. The latest bits are much more stable than earlier versio

Indiana Jones and I have one thing in common that is undisputable: we hate snakes. This weekend I was cleaning my pool when I noticed a snake head sticking out of the small rock waterfall. It was hanging out inside of the hole where the water flows out. It was about an inch across but only about 2