Category Archives: Tools

Simple reads with Entity Framework

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

This works nicely for quick reads.  Requires no mappings or any of that junk. Just a DataReader shaped to a type. Edit: Because this is my first day to ever work with EF, my first attempt at this was more … Continue reading →

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Reuse is overrated, then came package management

Posted on February 27, 2011 by

Reuse is overrated.  True story: a team building a system.  They decide that one chunk of code might be valuable in another project or two.  So they extract it into a library and open source it. Project complete, team reorganizes … Continue reading →

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AutoMapper in NerdDinner

Posted on July 6, 2009 by

Speaking of NerdDinner, Scott asked me to use it to create an AutoMapper example. AutoMapper, the brainchild of Jimmy Bogard, is an object-to-object mapper.  What that means is up to you – but we’ll use it here to map from … Continue reading →

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