Type inheritance is not frequently implemented in OData services. I’d say that REST services is not a very good fit for OO paradigm and there are other means to expose information in a REST service than to open up the whole object hierarchy. However, today the easiest way to build an OData service is...
This walkthrough covers the migration of tables and primary/foreign keys that is a reasonable assumption when accessing data using ORM. Prerequisites Visual Studio 2010 (should also work with Visual Studio 2008 with .NET 3.5 SP1 applied). Devart dotConnect for Oracle (formely known as OraDirect.NET)...
Entity Framework has previously been a real pain in the backside to unit test and this slowed my own development of unit testing skills. It’s so much quicker to “just get it done” when deadlines loom. The new Entity Framework 4 promised POCO (Plain-old-CLR-objects) support which allows...
A bit late, but it was still in my drafts folder, I just had to finish it. Timothy Mallalieu presented the session on the future of Entity Framework. The Data Platform We have so many data storage options and so many needs for data. Normal data access Users and applications get data from the database...