# Entity Framework - Tony Sneed's Blog

Tony Sneed's Blog

It's here! Trackable Entities for EF Core! Trackable Entities project track changes to an object graph as you update, add and remove items, then send those changes to a back-end service where they can be saved in a single transaction.

EF 6.x Code-First and Model-First with Trackable Entities 2.1 The advantage of the consolidated designer is that you can pick and choose which tables you want, versus generating classes for all the tables in your database

Real-World MVVM with Entity Framework and ASP.NET Web API I just completed a sample application using Simple MVVM Toolkit together with Trackable Entities to build a real-world N-Tier solution with a WPF client and portable POCO entities that are automatically change-tracked and sent to an ASP.NET Web API service that uses Entity Framework to perform asynchronous CRUD operations.

Become an N-Tier Ninja with Trackable Entities 2.0 Taking a cue from Julie Lerman and Scott Hanselman, I've decided to dub version 2.0 of my Trackable Entities framework, the Ninja Edition.

Trackable Entities - Now with Repository and Unit of Work With inquires on the project discussion forum, and some prompting by my friend Long Le, who authored the Generic Unit of Work and Repository Framework, I decided to add support to my framework for using Repository and Unit of Work design patterns.

Trackable Entities versus Self-Tracking Entities In this blog post I'd like to perform an in-depth comparison between my own Trackable Entities framework and the now deprecated Self-Tracking Entities, written by the Entity Framework team at Microsoft.

API Improvements in Trackable Entities v1.01 I'd like to announce version 1.01 of Trackable Entities, which fixes a few issues and adds two methods to the API: AcceptChanges and MergeChanges

Trackable Entities Version 1.0 Released! I am pleased to announce the release of Trackable Entities version 1.0 - with support for both WCF and ASP.NET Web API with Visual Studio 2012 and 2013!

Trackable Entities: N-Tier Support for Entity Framework Writing N-Tier apps can get complicated fast. Consider the assortment of n-tier technologies now consigned to the ash heap of history: WCF RIA Services, Self-Tracking Entities, and good old typed DataSets.

Webinar: N-Tier Entity Framework with DTOs I recently delivered a free webinar for DevelopMentor on n-tier application development using Entity Framework 4.0.