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• Unit Testing Entity Framework 4.0: A-Z in 3 Easy Steps
  on Aug 28, 2010
  This article gives you an ultra-fast run down on how to start Unit Testing in Entity Framework 4.0 using C#; applying a suitable Code Generation Item to your Entity Data Model (EDMX) file, and building a Unit Test Project in Visual Studio 2010.No ext...
• Mocking Context Generator: Visual Studio 2010 Template
  on Aug 18, 2010
  In my previous article, I discussed how to put together an Visual Studio 2010 Template to provide Maintenance-free Mocking for Unit Testing in Entity Framework 4.0.The finished template is available for download here.How to UseJust like any other Ent...
• Maintenance-Free Mocking for Unit Testing with Entity Framework 4.0
  on Aug 18, 2010
  If you are trying to unit test in Entity Framework 4.0, you may have come across an apparent lack of architectural support for unit testing integration. Visual Studio 2010 appears to have excellent support for integrating Unit Test Projects into your...
• Maintenance-Free Mocking for Unit Testing with EntityFramework 4.0
  on Aug 18, 2010
  If you are trying to unit test in Entity Framework 4.0, you may have come across an apparent lack of architectural support for unit testing integration. Visual Studio 2010 appears to have excellent support for integrating Unit Test Projects into your...
• ADO.NET Mocking Context Generator: Visual Studio 2010 Template
  on Aug 18, 2010
  In my previous article, I discussed how to put together an Visual Studio 2010 Template to provide Maintenance-free Mocking for Unit Testing in Entity Framework 4.0.The finished template is available for download here.How to UseJust like any other Ent...
• Stateless paging in SQL Server CE 3.51 using Entity Framework
  on Aug 9, 2010
  If you are bound to Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.51 (or indeed, I think any of 3.x) using Entity Framework then you may have found the lack of support for server-stateless paging through queries:SELECT VALUE employee FROM EmployeesORDER BY...
• A Strongly Typed Expand Extension for WCF Data Services Clients
  on Jun 20, 2010
  For anyone that's used WCF Data Services (formerly ADO.NET Data Services), I guess you'll have run into the fact that using the Expand function for eager loading tables referenced by foreign keys uses a string as its overhead parameter:DataServiceQue...