Review: Programming Entity Framework: Code First (2011)

January 5, 2012
James Skemp

The following is a review of Programming Entity Framework: Code First, written by Julia Lerman and Rowan Miller. While I had heard of Julie Lerman and her book Programming Entity Framework, after the release of code first I was on the fence on just how much I would get out of the existing book. With the release of Programming Entity Framework: Code First I knew I'd learn something, so I picked up an electronic copy (PDF) and started digging in.

August 23, 2010
James Skemp

My laptop has quickly become my development machine for smaller projects, especially after I purchased a low-end desktop to host the Subversion repositories. I recently added ELMAH support to one of my sites, but since I run 64-bit, and have been using the built-in Cassini for quick development, I started getting a message in Visual Studio 2010 saying "ASP.NET runtime error: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite' or one of its dependencies.

August 15, 2010
James Skemp

In part one of this series we covered what we'd be doing, and what data model we'd be using. In part two of this series we used LINQ to XML to query the XML file with the data we want to display. This time we'll be doing the heavy lifting of actually creating the chart and displaying it to the user. For ease, I'll be implementing very basic caching. Preliminary requirement Before you can use the charting functionality you need to have a reference to System.

August 14, 2010
James Skemp

In part one of this series we covered what we'd be doing, and what model we'd be using for the data. This time we'll parse the XML file that contains the data we need, and populate the objects. Loading the XML file The XML file we'll be loading is located at http://jamesrskemp.com/files/OdinSphere.xml, and to keep it simple, we'll load it in assuming we're on a different server/domain. First we'll need to add the following so we can make use of XDocument.

August 13, 2010
James Skemp

For a while now I've been meaning to work with ASP.NET 4's built-in charting functionality. While I was going to use it alongside my gas tracking, I think I'm instead going to use my Odin Sphere leveling guide, so I don't have to create an XSLT for the output. In this part of the series I'll outline the data model I'll be using, and preliminary setups. Method So that this can easily be deployed anywhere, I'm going to opt not to use the control itself, but rather programmatically create the charts/graphs.

June 25, 2010
James Skemp

See the table of contents for more information. In this series we've started with a new loan class, that contains information about a loan, including the total amount due, how much is to be paid per payment, the interest rate, and etcetera. A method is available that will generate information about the number of payments required to pay off the loan. In the second part we created a WCF WebHttp service, or a WCF REST service, to use the class/assembly from that loan object and return XML data for GET requests.

June 24, 2010
James Skemp

See the table of contents for more information. In the last part we created a Loan object, that we determined we would later use to power our Web service. Ths object has a handful of properties and a method to update a list of payments to bring the loan to $0. This time we’re going to create a Web service to respond to requests from data. Requirements As this seems to be built for .

June 22, 2010
James Skemp

See the table of contents for more information. As already noted in the table of contents, the end goal will to have a service that returns enough information to be able to generate an amortization schedule for a loan. I'm not in financial services, and haven't been very good in math since some point in high school, but this seems to work fairly well. The first thing we're going to do is generate an assembly that we'll then use in the WCF WebHttp service.

June 21, 2010
James Skemp

A while ago (a year and a quarter) I created an amortization schedule generator in ASP.NET, as an attempt to help me determine when I could expect to have a loan paid off, depending upon how much money I threw at it. For better or worse, some of the practices I put in place aren't the best, and either way I've been meaning to tweak the interface so that I could do various comparisons.

June 15, 2010
James Skemp

I know I should know them better so I've been looking into WCF Web services, with a heavy lean towards an implementation based on REST principles. After a good deal of research, where it was highly suggested that while ASP.NET MVC may make sense, WCF is still the way to go for Web services, I stumbled upon WCF WebHttp Services, which uses functionality released in .NET 4. After a painless install via Visual Studio 2010's Extension Manager (more information), and troubleshooting a stupid mistake on my end, I was able to quickly create a Web service that uses an assembly I had created to parse one of my iTunes Playlists to Xml files and return a listing of tracks for a particular artist.

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Review: Programming Entity Framework: Code First (2011)

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