Monthly Archives: July 2010

First look at EF Magic Unicorn

A few days ago, Microsoft released CTP4 of the Entity Framework Feature. In his blog post demonstrating the new features of the EF CTP4, Scott Hanselman proposed a better name than the official “Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature 4″: “EF … Continue reading

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Is formatting strings in a View evil?

Yesterday, I ran into an interesting post by Chris Brandsma about his personal rules when dealing with Views in ASP.NET MVC. While he sure has some valid points, I don’t agree with everything he says in that post. Apparently, I’m … Continue reading

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Order on multiple fields with LINQ

This is one of the things I tend to forget when I need to order a list on multiple fields using LINQ. I often start with chaining OrderBy() methods, only to realize that that doesn’t work. When you do that, … Continue reading

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