My father's family migrated to America from Italy in the early 1900's. Specifically, they came from the town of Castiglione in Sicilia. I have seen some incredible photos of the volcano that happens to be the next door neighbor to Castiglione , but with today's mapping tools it is pretty

No that's not a typo in the title ... it's my poor attempt at dry humor :) I have had several questions from people over the past few months regarding my noticeable sparseness in blogging at www.codebetter.com [http://www.codebetter.com], my blogging home for the past 3 years. The truth is

Yeah, I know its expected that when a product is in beta and its ancillary features are released in a CTP that there will be some "interesting" issues in getting set up. But its getting a bit out of control (in a good way) lately with all of the installations related to the Entity Framewor

If you have tried the "Update Model from Database" feature in the Entity Framework's EDM tool (latest version is the EDM CTP 2) you probably have noticed that it currently does not fully update the DB model as well as you hoped. I know I got excited when I first saw the feature, but qu

I've been using the EntityBag concept that Danny Simmons has been posting [http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/archive/2008/01/20/entitybag-part-ii-modes-and-constructor.aspx] for a while now. One of the neat aspects of the EntityBag is its automatic mode settings. As I was explaining this to someon