Sam Gentile's Blog

Entity Framework

• ADO.Net Entity Framework Community Technology Preview Released! - The updated CTP includes many requested improvements and added features particuarly in the area of Enhancements to Code Only and Self-Tracking Entities
• Model First with the Entrity Framework 4 - This post continues an earlier post on the designer’s “out of the box” database schema generation experience. In this post, they show how some new designer features in VS2010 Beta 2 integrate with this capability, then they pop the hood and show how easy it is to replace or extend parts of the generation system.
• Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework - This article offers a walkthrough of foreign key relationships in the EF and how they’re useful in VS2010 Beta2.

WCF/WIF

• WCF4 Beta 2 demos from TechEd Europe session - Christian has the SCF B2 sanples from TechEd Europe
• Thinktecture.IdentityModel updated for WIF RC - The title says it all

CLR/BizTalk/RIA

• Query Editor: Writing Queries, Part 1 - My friend Jason, changes the focus to be just on creating queries to solve a problem, such as finding interface implementations or searching the IL for certain things like box instructions.
• Essential BizTalk Debgging Skills - My very good friend Tomas reflects on a few skills I believe BizTalk developers should develop to solve problems on their solutions effectively
• http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live! Brad announces the new community site