Tim Rayburn
If you’ve ever worked with EF, even if you’re doing EF Code First, your almost certainly doing it wrong. While EF is a wonderful framework, it doesn’t lead you into the correct patterns of use. Especially if you’re interested in isolation and testability. This talk will review the concepts of Repository Pattern and Specification Pattern and how to implement those in Entity Framework.
Tim Rayburn is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises, a software and project management consulting company in Dallas, TX. Since 2007 he has been annually awarded the Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems Development in recognition of his expertise and community leadership. He is the organizer of Dallas TechFest, where through the work of an amazing staff they bring an incredible multi-technology conference to life every year in Dallas. He is the author of “Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook”, with Devlin Liles, and can be found speaking across the nation of agile process, distributed architecture, and data access technologies. He lives in Arlington Texas with his amazing wife Kate and their loyal dog Gandalf. He can be reached at Tim@TimRayburn.net