Back in May 2008, I did two posts on how to implement a composite application using Caliburn framework. By that time, Caliburn was still in pre-alpha stage. With lots of the changes along the way to reach Release Candidate, those content are not valid anymore, so I thought a new post to show how you can use Caliburn to build a WPF application is in order. Continue reading

Last post showed how to use a ObjectContext derivation to automatically generate audit information. Now instead of using a ObjectContext directly, a rather different approach, a pattern called Repository Pattern is used to encapsulate access to the entities. Continue reading

In last post showed how easy it was to use POCO classes in EntityFramework v4, a feature called “All Code”. This new feature, facilitates creating domain models but how about other features you may already have using other ORMs like NHibernate? Let’s see how we can achieve automatic audit logging in EF v4. Continue reading

With the release of EntityFramework v1 and lack of features such as Lazy Loading and Persistence Ignorance leading to Vote of No Confidence resulted the team working on Entity Framework project to actually change route and as the result, a lot of improvements has been made in EntityFramework v4. Wait a second…What happened to v2 and v3, you might ask? Well, EntityFramework vNext that will be released with .NET Framework 4 is named EntityFramework v4, so you didn’t miss anything. Let’s see how PI works in this version. Continue reading