The last few weeks, I have worked on a project that uses Entity Framework 4 Code First (let’s call it EF from now). Normally, I use NHibernate for my OR-mapping needs and although EF works almost the same conceptually, there
Cuyahoga 2.0 Alpha released
Just a little post to let you know that I released the first Alpha of the next generation of the Cuyahoga CMS yesterday. For the people who don’t know Cuyahoga: it’s a .NET CMS that uses lots of Open Source
One year after the Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence…
About a year ago, a few people (called by some as ‘The NHibernate Mafia’) wrote a vote of no confidence against the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF), mainly because a big influential company like Microsoft was releasing an inferior tool
New adventures under medium trust
Many web hosting companies only allow ASP.NET applications to run under medium trust. This has been a major drawback for Cuyahoga because it required full trust (or better: some libraries require full trust). This has already caused some nasty surprises
NHibernate criteria queries across multiple many-many associations
Recently, I ran into an issue with NHibernate Criteria queries. The scenario is the following: User has a many-many association with Role and Role has a many-many association with Site. I simply wanted all users that belong to a given