Episode 70: Coding First with Entity Framework 4.1

Wednesday, May 11 2011 - Podcast

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In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with two members of the Entity Framework team to discuss the Code First update in Entity Framework 4.1 and why developers should be excited about this new feature.

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Tim Laverty is a program manager lead in the Business Platform Division working on the Entity Framework. He is responsible for helping build next generation data access technologies from Microsoft. Tim has contributed to the design of a wide range of features for the Microsoft Data Platform including System.Data, System.XML, and Visual Studio Data Tooling. Tim is an industry vet having worked in government, agriculture, games, and commercial software. Tim can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/timlaverty Tim’s email is timlav@microsoft.com

Jeff Derstadt is a developer lead on the Data Frameworks team at Microsoft and is involved with the Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, and datajs projects. His focus is on improving the developer experience around connecting to and accessing data. Jeff has been a part of the EF team since its inception and is currently working on adding features to the next version. Prior to working on data access frameworks, Jeff worked in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft making it possible for Microsoft servers to integrate with DB2 and host file systems. When not at Microsoft, Jeff enjoys participating in triathlons, house building projects, and spending time with his family. Jeff can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jeffders Jeff’s email is jeffders@microsoft.com

Show Notes

• Entity Framework team blog
• Entity Framework Feature Suggestions Forum

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#1 This is Tim on 5.13.2011 at 2:29 PM

Sad to say I had to stop listening 10 minutes in, as the constant this is Jeff, this is Tim, this is Jeff, this is Tim got on my nerves. Cmon guys, Ever noticed how nobody else does that? You don't sound alike at all, so please stop this madness!

#2 Mike Brady on 5.16.2011 at 1:57 PM

I never could figure out which was Tim and which was Jeff. :-) Would have made for a good drinking game.

Great info, though!

#3 Nevada Williford on 5.18.2011 at 2:50 PM

I enjoyed the podcast and picked up some helpful information. I'm working largely on a brownfield project at the moment and thus hadn't really looked at EF 4.1. After listening to Tim and Jeff I think I'll spend some time with it this weekend though to see if how it could help.

#4 Suzie on 5.29.2011 at 1:19 PM

I thought this was a good one. This <a href="http://twitter.co/#!/timlaverty">twitter</a> page along with some others that followed are worth looking into for day to day info!

#5 Suzie on 5.29.2011 at 1:21 PM

oops. sorry. i tried to make the click linkable for Tim's twitter. one more try! Please delete if it doesn't come through. Thanks, Suz

a href="http://twitter.com/#!/timlaverty">twitter</a>

#6 Grace on 6.07.2011 at 1:50 PM

great show!

#7 ski resort on 4.30.2012 at 7:02 AM

Now you make it easy for me to understand and implement. Thanks for sharing with us.

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