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Chocolatey goodness - What....md

Chocolatey is a global PowerShell execution engine. What does that mean? I'm not sure but it does some really cool stuff.

For instance, if you lose your car keys you can just pull up a command line and type - chocolatey where are my keys? and it will respond with "Please run chocolatey /? or chocolatey help".

Okay bad example, but it definitely does some cool things like save you time and make you look uber smart for using it. Come see what this thing is and what it can do for you.

"Sometimes it's the tools that make the man." -Rob Reynolds, like 2 seconds ago

Entity Framework plus Migrations - The Tour.md

Entity Framework is now at version 5. It started out with a lot of issues but somewhere around 4.1 it became a decent tool. It now works with any database as long as that database is SQL Server. Some other features?

1. It has magic unicorn editions that will transform into a jet and fly you to a remote island.
2. It can print money.
3. It can grant up to three wishes, even if one of those wishes is for NHibernate.

On a slightly more serious note, we are going to look at some of the features of Entity Framework Code First and EF Migrations while we build a simple app. For some more awesome sauce we may switch over and look at an overlooked feature of EF DbFirst - the ability to automap your stored procedures to your entities!

Hecklers and NHibernate lovers welcome!