EDM Wizard and Designer Featured in VSLive! San Francisco Keynote

Published 27 March 07 08:42 PM | dpblogs 

Britt Johnston, Director, Data Programmability at Microsoft gave a Keynote speech this morning at VSLive in San Francisco. In his presentation, Britt spoke largely about the idea of Conceptual Data Programming and Microsoft's vision for Data Access: raising the level of abstraction around data access to allow developers to be more productive and allow us to write less code.

Britt began by talking about the idea of programming against a Conceptual data model rather than the Logical data model that we currently program to, and ended by delving into the key technoglogies that Microsoft plans to focus on for future innovation including continued investment in the Entity Framework, an Entity-level services ecosystem (Reporting, Synchronization, etc.), and the Enabling of Dynamic Applications (Conceptual Programming, Integrated Development Experience, Device to Cloud Support, etc.).

Britt also featured 5 short videos or screencasts that demonstrated some of the work, specifically around Tools, that the Data Programmability team (including the ADO.NET) has been doing. These videos provide some great information and a preview of the new EDM Wizard coming in Orcas, as well as a sneak preview of a new EDM Designer that we can expect to see released after the upcoming Orcas release.

For links to the other videos featured in Britt's Keynote presentation, see the Data blog.

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# Elisa Johnson's Blog said on March 28, 2007 12:04 AM:

Well I've already written 2 posts about this keynote for my team blogs ( data and ADO.NET ), so I don't

# Sahil Malik said on March 28, 2007 2:57 AM:

BTW - I have a suggestion.

All examples I've seen seem to re-emphasize the same concepts. Say in this demo, you have Users/Employees (something we have seen way back in 2006).

It'd help on either side I feel, if every demo used a different model.

SM

# Frans Bouma said on March 28, 2007 4:35 AM:

Does this also mean that in Orcas it won't be possible to design the various xml / mapping files for EDM? You have to revert to xml hammering in Orcas?

# rogerj said on March 28, 2007 12:29 PM:

Echoing Frans Bouma, the "a new EDM Designer that we can expect to see released after the upcoming Orcas release" language indicates to me that the designer will arrive in VS 10, not Orcas.

Please say it isn't so.

--rj

# John Papa said on March 28, 2007 7:13 PM:

This looks great so far. I also like the normalization of the lookup table. That is a great feature for database modelling.

Thanks for the teaser!

# rogerj said on March 29, 2007 11:07 AM:

Following up on my prior question, there are conflicting reports regarding the RTM date of the EDM Designer: "after Orcas," "not in the beta," and "shortly after Orcas." Also, there appears to be a conflict in reports about the RTM of the XSD Designer. See http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/orcas-edm-wizard-and-designer-previewed.html.

Can you clarify when we can expect to see a CTP or beta of the EDM Designer and how long after Orcas RTM is it expected to be released?

Thanks in advance,

Roger Jennings

# dpblogs said on March 31, 2007 11:06 PM:

Thank you for all of your comments and questions. I would like to quickly address the questions regarding the release of the EDM Designer.

At this point in time, we have not released a timeline for the EDM Designer. As I mentioned in the post, the EDM Designer is NOT planned for the Orcas release. We are aware of the importance of this tool, and are working hard to make a CTP of the Designer available as soon as we can, possibly along side an Orcas Beta.

Thank you,

Elisa Johnson

Program Manager, Data Programmability

# Marlon Smith said on April 4, 2007 10:53 AM:

Please tell me it's an out-of-band release that I can expect soon after Orcas is realeased.

# Kevin Miller said on April 23, 2007 5:38 PM:

We just got confirmation today from the ADO.Net team over at Microsoft that the EDM Designer will not

# Kevin Miller said on April 23, 2007 5:41 PM:

We just got confirmation today from the ADO.Net team over at Microsoft that the EDM Designer will not

# RightHand blogs said on April 28, 2007 9:49 AM:

Orcas is bringing two similar but different LINQed ORM approaches: LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework/LINQ

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