• On Life and Love

    Brain Twist: .NET MVC 3, Entity Framework 4.1, and TDD

    Talk about taking a large bite. In the interests of pushing my .NET knowledge, I began migrating the Geist character sheet project that I’d started in Django to .NET MVC 3. I hadn’t done MVC in .NET since MVC 1 was beta’d, but hey, MVC is MVC is MVC. Right? So in the interests of making things more interesting and more testable, I decided to dive into the Entity Framework 4. My beginning read of POJOs in Action, along with my previous experience with .netTears–I mean, .netTiers–had me generally familiar with the concepts of entities, contexts, and repositories. Kicker is, POJOs is just a book (and one I’ve barely dived…