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Continuing my EF4 progress series: 
Part 1

Part 2
here is now my latest version. What’s new in it? Well basically a lot. Starting with the GUI and functionality I have now crud for orders as well as orderrows. And I have added a new entity into my model, namely product. So you basically start off [...]

Entity Framework select random row

While one of the obvious benefits of EF (and Linq to sql) is the abtraction of the SQL. You use LINQ instead. However, somewhere, somehow your LINQ query must be translated to SQL and sooner or later you will find yourself wondering why things wont work.
Selecting a random record was a problem for me. I [...]

EF4 – iteration 2

Ok, so my first try of getting a proof of concept application (according to my typical application architechture needs) is available here in part 1
Read that article first so you’ll get an understanding of where I come from and where I wanna go…
This is iteration 2. Here I am using the order/detail  parts from [...]

Entity Framework 4 design issues

See my progress in trying to adopt the use of Entity Framework 4 into real world projects. Download the solution at the end of the article
My overall goals were:

Start using Entity Framework 4 as data layer
Still fullfill my “reasonable good enough” design goals which basically means

separate assembly DAL
separate assembly businesslayer
GUI pretty dumb (althugh [...]