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Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack
08 February 10 09:22 AM | dpblogs | 3 Comments   
The "Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack" is a downloadable addition to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 which includes some new database generation technologies. The original Database Generation feature in the Entity Designer in VS 2010 is extensible Read More...
Attachment(s): DatabaseGenerationPowerPack.zip
Announcing the Entity Framework POCO Template update for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
25 January 10 11:55 AM | dpblogs | 7 Comments   
Note: The download links below have been disabled while we prepare to release a new refresh of the template that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. Today we are releasing an updated version of the POCO entity generation templates Read More...
Walkthrough: POCO Template for the Entity Framework
25 January 10 10:58 AM | dpblogs | 11 Comments   
The POCO Template can be used to generate persistence ignorant entity types from an Entity Data Model. The goal of this walkthrough is to demonstrate a basic scenario of its use with Entity Framework. Requirements Any edition of Visual Studio 2010 Beta Read More...
Attachment(s): POCOTemplateWalkthrough.zip
POCO Proxies Part 1
22 December 09 09:52 AM | dpblogs | 16 Comments   
The Entity Framework (EF) in .NET 4.0 introduces the ability to interact with entities with persistence ignorance (POCOs). While this favors separation of concerns, it also means that the entities will do less because they cannot talk directly to the Read More...
Test-Driven Development Walkthrough with the Entity Framework 4.0
17 December 09 02:14 PM | dpblogs | 0 Comments   
This walkthrough will demonstrate how to use the new Plain Old CLR Object (POCO) support in Entity Framework 4.0 to develop an application using Test-Driven Development (TDD). In the first release of EF, entity classes had to inherit from EntityObject Read More...
Attachment(s): TDDWalkthrough.zip
Automatic Generation of Stored Procedure Return Types
12 November 09 12:07 PM | dpblogs | 6 Comments   
A new feature of the Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 is the ability to return collections of complex type instances from stored procedures. In the next public release of the designer, we have enriched this functionality by adding the ability to automatically Read More...
Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework
06 November 09 02:06 PM | dpblogs | 11 Comments   
Last March Alex James posted to our design blog about our plans for adding foreign keys to the entity framework . Since then we’ve pushed forward with implementing FK associations and properties and have included them in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 . This Read More...
Model First with the Entity Framework 4
05 November 09 09:52 AM | dpblogs | 7 Comments   
In a previous post , we walked through the designer’s “out of the box” database schema generation experience. In this post, we show how some new designer features in VS2010 Beta 2 integrate with this capability, then we pop the hood and show how easy Read More...
ADO.Net Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview Released!
04 November 09 03:25 PM | dpblogs | 19 Comments   
We’ve released an update of the Entity Framework Feature CTP ! The updated CTP includes many requested improvements and added features we’ve gathered from the community since the release of our first CTP and supports installation with Visual Studio 2010 Read More...
Upcoming ADO.Net Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
26 October 09 05:42 PM | dpblogs | 6 Comments   
Just a quick note to let everyone know we’re actively working on an updated Feature CTP for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.  As soon as the bits are ready we’ll release and post here again.  Currently the plan is to include some great new enhancements Read More...
New features in Entity Framework impacting providers
22 October 09 12:31 PM | dpblogs | 2 Comments   
Providers for Entity Framework 3.5 will work unmodified against Entity Framework 4.0. Also, most of the features and improvements introduced in Entity Framework 4.0 will just work against an Entity Framework 3.5 provider. However, there are several features Read More...
VS2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Announced!
19 October 09 05:56 PM | dpblogs | 21 Comments   
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are now available for download by MSDN subscribers and will available to the rest of the world on Wednesday. Beta 2 as well the VS2010 Launch date of March 22, 2010 were announced this morning on Soma’s Read More...
Improvements to the Generated SQL in .NET 4.0 Beta1
05 August 09 09:31 PM | dpblogs | 19 Comments   
One of the things that we are continuously working on improving is the quality and the readability of the SQL generated when querying using the Entity Framework. We have already made some improvements in .NET 4.0 Beta 1, and we are working on more for Read More...
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Customizing T4 Templates
22 July 09 11:26 AM | dpblogs | 7 Comments   
The whole point of us using T4 for code-generation is that it makes it easy to customize the generated entities. A good example might be to support some sort of validation when setting string properties. To illustrate lets re-use the code from the recent Read More...
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Entity Framework Provider for Synergy DBMS
01 July 09 10:08 AM | dpblogs | 1 Comments   
It is my pleasure to announce that Synergex has released their Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET with support for the Entity Framework. The Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET enables developers to access Synergy DBMS databases from .NET applications and Read More...
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