The NFL draft just ended this past weekend. I am a big NY Giants fan and we had a great year last year and a very enjoyable Super Bowl. The Giants had a fantastic draft in 2007 where all of their picks made the team and most of them contributed heavily to their Super Bowl run and victory. But did yo

I'm all for quick and easy examples especially when it comes to LINQ, so here goes one that I get asked a lot. This is a quick example that shows how to grab a few properties from a parent entity and use an aggregate function on the parent entity's children entities. Specifically, this examp

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

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

No that's not a typo in the title ... it's my poor attempt at dry humor :) I have had several questions from people over the past few months regarding my noticeable sparseness in blogging at www.codebetter.com [http://www.codebetter.com], my blogging home for the past 3 years. The truth is