Entity Framework Samples in Visual Basic by ThinqLinq

Entity Framework Samples in Visual Basic

For those Visual Basic users out that that have struggled with the fact that the samples were only available in C#, you can now rejoice. There are a number of projects that have now been translated into Visual Basic for your learning pleasure. You can find these samples on the MSDN Code Gallery’s Entity Framework page. At this point the following projects have been translated.

  • Entity Framework Query Samples Compatible with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Visual Basic and C# versions available)
    The Entity Framework Query Samples is a small Windows Forms program that contains several basic Entity SQL and LINQ to Entities queries against that NorthwindEF Entity Data Model (based on a modified version of Northwind). Its goal is to help you learn the features of the two query languages supported by EF and visualize how the results and the translated store query look like.
  • Entity Framework Lazy Loading Compatible with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Visual Basic and C# versions available)
    This sample shows how to use code generation to add support for transparent lazy loading to Entity Framework. It includes code generator (EFLazyClassGen), supporting library (Microsoft.Data.EFLazyLoading) and sample test applications.
  • Persistence Ignorance (POCO) Adapter for Entity Framework V1 Compatible with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Visual Basic and C# versions available)
    EF POCO Adapter enables Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) to be tracked using released version of Entity Framework V1 using automatically generated adapter objects. It consist of a code generator, supporting library and a test suite and examples.

There are several more on the way. I’ll try to update this post when they become available.

5/22: Update: Two more samples went online today:

  • EF Extensions Compatible with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Visual Basic and C# versions available)
    The ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions library includes utilities that make querying stored procedures, creating typed results from DB data readers and state tracking external data much easier in the Entity Framework. A sample application demonstrates several patterns using these utilities, including stored procedures with multiple result sets, materialization of CLR types, and registering entities in the Entity Framework state manager.
  • ADO.NET Data Services IUpdateable implementation for Linq to Sql
    Sample implementation of ADO.NET Data Services IUpdateable interface for Linq to Sql Data Sources.
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