>>I make no secret about being a framework guy and a sucker for third party tools. ( I have a fuzzy warm spot for things that make me a lot of money )
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>>Long ago, Cetin suggested Ideablade's DevForce to me but only now as I am transitioning to C# and have fallen in love with WPF and the Entity Framework am I really seeing that DevForce 6.07 and its Entity support is the wave of my future.
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>>And most impressive is the incredible level of documentation !
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>>And apropos of that : DevExpress has been a constant source of delight - both in their amazing documentation, training videos, samples and support.
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>>It is a joy to see people really doing it right.
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>>I loved what I was doing in the VFP/VFE days, but VS 2010 and these two tools have made all that seem like the days of writing Applesoft.
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>>BTW, Julia Lerman is a goddess. She first got me excited about EF in .NET 4.0
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http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/seth/archive/2010/11/08/video-julie-lerman-on-entity-framework-4.aspx>
>Hadn't seen that. I think she's definitely right about POCO support opening EF up to a lot more flexibility.
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>>Good article(s) in the always good Code Magazine :
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http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0909081>>
>>Her book :
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http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Entity-Framework-Building-Centric/dp/0596807260/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295547023&sr=1-1>
>I've got the book but must admit I didn't find it an easy read. She sure knows her stuff and I learned a lot - but it was hard work. Then again maybe it's not possible to explain EF in terms I find easy to understand :-{.
>Anyway there's not much else in the way of EF books out there.....
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>>Her videos :
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ff191186>>
>>It was only after going through this stuff that I started to appreciate how cool the stuff Ideablade was doing in DevForce really is.
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>>Hope this helps somebody else looking for "what's next"
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>I just used EF with the Silverlight RIA services templates - that was an interesting experience.....
"Interesting" is a word that takes in a lot of territory ;-) How did it go?
