Comments on: SQL Compact and The Entity Framework http://lukhezo.com/2009/02/18/sql-compact-and-the-entity-framework/ .NET Haberdasher Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ken Beale http://lukhezo.com/2009/02/18/sql-compact-and-the-entity-framework/#comment-621 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:36:56 +0000 http://castalian.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/sql-compact-and-the-entity-framework/#comment-621 Ira,
Thank you kindly for your response, i think I will at this stage of my development stay with Linq to Sql using Sql Server Compact as I’ve mastered creating DBML’s.

Regards

Ken

]]> By: Ira Lukhezo http://lukhezo.com/2009/02/18/sql-compact-and-the-entity-framework/#comment-620 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:15:21 +0000 http://castalian.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/sql-compact-and-the-entity-framework/#comment-620 Hello Ken,

Even though Microsoft stopped the development of Linq to SQL, it still contains a lot of functionality that you need, so I still use it because it is lightweight, and designed far much better than the Entity Framework. It is only when I need really advanced features that I use the Entity Framework, though if I am completely honest, I would rather use nHibernate for .NET.

The only downside to using Linq to SQL with SQL compact, is that Visual Studio does not create the ORM for you and you have to manually create the file. I would recommend this book by Julia Lerman however (I think only the first edition is available in Visual Basic but the second edition is C# only). Julia also maintains an excellent blog as well.

Regards,

Ira

]]> By: Ken Beale http://lukhezo.com/2009/02/18/sql-compact-and-the-entity-framework/#comment-618 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:54:07 +0000 http://castalian.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/sql-compact-and-the-entity-framework/#comment-618 Dear Sir,
Thank you for an excellent tutorial on the Enitity Framework. I am a elderly potential hobbyist programmer using a standard installation of Visual Basic Express 2010 who has been reseaching to use Linq to Sql Compact 3.5 for the last ten days, then I found your Entities Framework on the web. I was disappointed to read that MS is not keeping Linq to Sql. However, I decided to attempt to create from your guidelines the above program. I was extremely happy to find that it processed quite easily and except for some reformating of the code worked beautifully.
As I am new to this could you possibly advise any tutorials and or Getting Started/Beginners Books on the Entitiy Framework for use with VBE2010.

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