Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Episode 70: Coding First with Entity Framework 4.1

 

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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Thanks to our guests this episode TimLaverty_web

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

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.

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