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Tip of the day: Going quickly to an item in the Entity Model Diagram

After a conversation recently about how difficult it was to find stuff in the EDMX diagram because it can often be a right pigs breakfast, I stumbled across...

— 03 Apr 2013

Getting Entity Framework to Pick up on the Auto-generated Part of the Composite Primary Key

In my previous post, I wrote about how to get SQL Server to automatically generate a composite primary key for a table when part of that key is also a foreign...

— 30 Dec 2012

Checking for NULL using Entity Framework

Here is a curious gotcha using the Entity Framework: If you are filtering on a value that may be null then you may not be getting back the results you expect....

— 22 Nov 2011

Getting just the columns you want from Entity Framework

I’ve been looking at trying to optimise the data access in the project I’m working on, and the major stuff (like getting a piece of code that generated 6000...

— 31 Jul 2011

Entity Framework query that never brings back data

I was recently optimising some data access code using the Entity Framework (EF) and I saw in the SQL Server Profiler this following emanating from the...

— 30 Jul 2011

Entity Framework: Unable to load the specified metadata resource.

Recently, I was refactoring some code and I moved the location of the .edmx file into a different folder (and new namespace). I updated the code to use the new...

— 23 Jul 2011