A couple of months ago we released EF5 Beta 2. Since releasing Beta 2 we have made a number of changes to the code base, so we decided to publish a Release Candidate before we make the RTM available. This release is licensed for use in production applications...

We have published a new version of the sample provider that supports features introduced in the Entity Framework 5. It can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Samples Gallery . This updated sample takes the sample provider code we released for Entity Framework...

With the Developer Preview release of .Net 4.5, ADO.NET introduced two asynchronous methods to the SqlDataReader class: ReadAsync and NextResultAsync . These two methods allow you to move to the next row or result set asynchronously and represent a much...

The Entity Framework Power Tools provide additional design-time tools in Visual Studio to help you develop using the Entity Framework. Today we are releasing Beta 2 of the Power Tools.   Where do I get it? The Entity Framework Power Tools are available...

Over the past few weeks the EF team has been putting together a whitepaper that talks about the performance considerations developers should take when using Entity Framework. Performance is one critical aspect of developing modern applications, and this...

A few weeks ago we released EF5 Beta 1, since then we’ve been working to improve quality and polish up the release. Today we are making EF5 Beta 2 available on NuGet. This release is licensed for use in production applications. Because it is a pre-release...

Introduction Many users of SqlClient with SQL Server Authentication have expressed interest in setting credentials outside of the connection string to mitigate the memory dump vulnerability of keeping the User Name and Password in the connection string...

Today we are pleased to announce the release of two new versions of the EntityFramework NuGet package. The 4.3.1 version includes some bug fixes for the 4.3 package we released a few weeks ago. We are also making the first beta of EF 5 available as a...

An O/RM, like any layer of abstraction, introduces overhead to data access. In EF 5.0 we have taken steps to reduce this overhead and improve performance. As a result in one of our tests, repeat execution time of the same LINQ query has been reduced by...

Over the last six months we’ve released a series of previews of our Code First Migrations work. Today we are making the first fully supported go-live release of our migrations work available as part of EF 4.3.   What Changed Between EF 4.2 and EF...

We have released the first go-live release of our Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework 4.3 . This post will provide an overview of the functionality that is available inside of Visual Studio for interacting with migrations. We will focus...

We have released the first go-live release of our Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework 4.3 . This post will provide an overview of the functionality that is available inside of Visual Studio for interacting with migrations. We will focus...

This preview is no longer current. A go-live release of Entity Framework 4.3 is now available. At the end of November we released Beta 1 of Code First Migrations. At the time we released Code First Migration Beta 1 we also announced that we would be rolling...

This preview is no longer current. A go-live release of Entity Framework 4.3 is now available. We have released the final preview of the Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 . This post will provide an overview of the functionality...

This preview is no longer current. A go-live release of Entity Framework 4.3 is now available. We have released the final preview of the Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 . This post will provide an overview of the functionality...

We recently released Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 which includes the ability to configure more DbContext and Code First related settings from your applications Web.config or App.config file. These Settings are Optional Code First and the DbContext API...

The recent SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release includes the new feature SQL Azure Federations which enables greater scalability and performance from the database tier of your application through horizontal partitioning. One or more tables within a database...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . At the end of September we released Alpha 3 of Code First Migrations. Based on Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 feedback your telling us that...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . We have released the fourth preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Beta 1 . This release...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . We have released the fourth preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Beta 1 . This release...

One of the most common errors observed when connecting to SQL Azure is – A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An established connection was aborted by the software in your...

We recently posted about our plans to rationalize how we name, distribute and talk about releases. We heard a resounding ‘Yes’ from you so then we posted about our plans for releasing EF 4.2. We then shipped a Beta and a Release Candidate of EF 4.2. Today...

The EF team has been working to become more agile and get new features into your hands faster. Our first two releases shipped as part of the .NET Framework but, as the result of an effort to release more often, in recent times we have been shipping a...

Greetings Developer community: We heard yesterday and today at the PASS conference about the exciting new areas that we are investing in bringing the power of SQL Server to our customers. Many of our developers who rely on native connectivity to SQL...

We recently posted about our plans to rationalize how we name, distribute and talk about releases. We heard a resounding ‘Yes’ from you so then we posted about our plans for releasing EF 4.2. We then shipped EF 4.2 Beta 1. Third party EF...