Quick Steps to displaying data using PivotViewer and Silverlight

Step 1 – Get PivotViewer

Step 2 – Get Pivot collection building tools

Step 3 – Begin to build your collection data

Step 4 – Build a Silverlight application implementing PivotViewer

Step 5- Publish the result

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Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4

• EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data.  It enables you to:

  • Work with data without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file

  • Define model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required

  • Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without explicitly configuring anything

  • http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/16/code-first-development-with-entity-framework-4.aspx

• Discussed how you can override the default persistence mapping rules, and enable custom database schemas

  • http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/23/entity-framework-4-code-first-custom-database-schema-mapping.aspx

• Using EF Code-First with an Existing Database

  •  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/08/03/using-ef-code-first-with-an-existing-database.aspx

Also my older post: http://vincenthomedev.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/simple-code-first-with-entity-framework-4/