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Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for the Entity Framework
15 November 09 07:10 PM | dpblogs | 2 Comments   
The goal of this walkthrough is to demonstrate a basic scenario for the use of the Self-Tracking Entities feature of Entity Framework. Self-Tracking Entities consist on a set of code generation templates based on Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) Read More...
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Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework
12 November 09 10:40 PM | dpblogs | 0 Comments   
This post covers Code Only improvements in the CTP2 release for VS 2010 Beta2. This walkthrough shows how you can change the default model like specifying property facets and navigation property inverses as well change the default mapping by changing Read More...
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Automatic Generation of Stored Procedure Return Types
12 November 09 12:07 PM | dpblogs | 5 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...
There is still time to make yourself heard
09 November 09 04:29 PM | dpblogs | 0 Comments   
The ADO.NET Providers team still needs your input. This is the last week to answer our ADO.NET Managed Providers Planning survey. Help us to make the decisions that will benefit our database community. The survey can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/11/01/the-ado-net-providers-team-wants-to-hear-your-opinion.aspx Read More...
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Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework
06 November 09 02:06 PM | dpblogs | 10 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 | 5 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 | 15 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...
The ADO.NET Providers team wants to hear your opinion
01 November 09 11:30 AM | dpblogs | 6 Comments   
This is the time when we, the ADO.NET Providers team, take a step back, review our goals for the next release and identify areas for investments. We view YOU as a key stakeholder in this process and would like to gather your inputs in this survey, which Read More...
Upcoming ADO.Net Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
26 October 09 05:42 PM | dpblogs | 5 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 | 18 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...
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 Now Available
01 September 09 12:03 PM | dpblogs | 0 Comments   
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 is now available for download ! This release (v1.5) targets the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & Silverlight 3 platforms and provides new client and server side features for data service developers.  What’s included in Read More...
DataDirect Releases Entity Framework Provider for Oracle
19 August 09 07:02 PM | dpblogs | 3 Comments   
DataDirect recently announced the release of their DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET Entity Framework provider for Oracle . The DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET Entity Framework provider for Oracle offers: All features supported with 100% managed code architecture: Read More...
Improvements to the Generated SQL in .NET 4.0 Beta1
05 August 09 09:31 PM | dpblogs | 17 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 | 6 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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