Archives for December, 2009

Simplifying Entity Framework: Data-Driven Design


This article reviews the theory and practice behind ADO.NET Entity Framework, discusses limitations of the current tools it provides and compares the benefits offered by solving the object-relational impedance mismatch against their costs. The article suggest using Entity Framework to improve and reduce costs of data-driven application design, which is prevalent in todays information systems and describes a code generation solution built using T4 Toolbox that can be used to achieve this goal.

Presentation: Code Generation with T4


Back in October, I presented a session on Code Generation with T4 at the Developer Tools Ecosystem Summit. This session provides an overview of developing code generators with T4, starting with template syntax and transformation process, to template debugging, to integration and deployment. During this session you see a sample code generator built from scratch, […]