Oslo Developer Center and SDK CTP Now Live

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Head over to the Chris Sells' blog to get all the details on the new public CTP of Oslo. This toolset has the possibility to change the nature of development in a major way. If you are interested in the modeling or DSL space, its definitely worth your time to dig into the tools.

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off-the-topic:

currently vs2008sp1 with ado.net entity framework only support ms sql server modeling, if we use third-party providers like dotOracle, we have to add a new entity model, if more providers, more models needed. then, if we use if in wcf/silverlight, we have to verify current provider, then new the instance, like:

if (provider == MSSQL)
context = new MSSQLContext();
else if (provider == Oracle)
context = new OracleContext();

//context.Foo

isn't it over headed?

unruledboy (Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 )

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right, we even could not do like the above since the MSSQLContext and OracleContext are not sharing the same interfaces.

unruledboy (Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 )

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unruledboy,

Huh? Are you talking Oslo are EF? If its EF, then remember you can change the connection string yourself...which means when you switch the Provider String (to point to the Oracle db), you can switch out the storage model file too so you can point it at the other storage model. Sure the tooling doesn't support it but EF does.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 )


 



 
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