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Entity Framework: Odd things during querying

So in THIS POST I talked about how querying worked on a conceptual level but turns out there is something going on that’s not expected. Remember how I said that if the object is in the context, the database won’t be hit? Turns out that isn’t true to an extent. With the help of profiler, [...]

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Entity Framework: Concepts and Headaches. Querying

So in the first part of this life changing tutorial, I explained what lazy loading was and how it worked with the Entity Framework. Now I wanted to get into querying/loading and how it’s handled. At least at a very simplistic angle. (Simplistic is what I do best. Day-oh!) Something that has to be understood [...]

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Entity Framework: Concepts and headaches. Lazy Loading

So when I wrote this and this I didn’t really have a precursor to some of the concepts in the posts so I figured I’d get them out of the way now since I’ll be posting a bunch on the Entity Framework. First off is lazy loading. Now I could put the obligatory stupid joke [...]

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Quick Hit: Hiding Horizontal or Vertical scroll using CSS

If nothing else the motto for this site is, “Why was this written?” but sometimes it can also be, “I bypass the middle man and pass the savings on to you.” In this case, it has to do with a really simple way to show only on scroll bar on a section be it a [...]

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Entity Framework: ObjectContext observations on caching

I thought that my journey with the Entity Framework was going to be like falling off a cliff, fast and painless but instead it’s been more like driving a Hummer in a Smart car convention, just have to plow my way through. The latest bump in my path has been the ObjectContext. Just to let [...]

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