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 the migrations work into the main EntityFramework NuGet package and releasing it as EF 4...

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 that is available inside of Visual Studio for interacting with migrations. We will focus...

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 that is available inside of Visual Studio for interacting with migrations. We will focus...

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...

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 we are building the right thing… so it’s time to start improving quality and working towards our first go-live release. Today...

We have released the fourth preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Beta 1 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience for incrementally evolving a database as your Code First model evolves over...

We have released the fourth preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Beta 1 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience for incrementally evolving a database as your Code First model evolves over...

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...

Entity Framework 4.2 Release Candidate is now available and contains a small update to the DbContext API & Code First runtime that were released as part of EF 4.1. This post will provide an introduction to Code First development and how it can be...

Entity Framework 4.2 Release Candidate is now available and contains a small update to the DbContext API & Code First runtime that were released as part of EF 4.1. This post will provide an introduction to Model First and Database First development...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations Beta 1 is now available. A couple of weeks ago we released Alpha 2 of Code First Migrations. Today we are happy to make Alpha 3 available to you. The overall feedback we got on Alpha 2 was that...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations Beta 1 is now available. We have released the third preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Alpha 3 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations Beta 1 is now available. We have released the third preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Alpha 3 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience...

The commercial release of Microsoft SQL Server, codename “Denali,” will be the last release to support OLE DB. Support details for the release version of SQL Server “Denali” will be made available within 90 days of release to manufacturing...

Entity Framework Code First is a development methodology available beginning with the Entity Framework 4.1. When using Code First development you usually begin by writing C# or Visual Basic .NET classes that define your conceptual (domain) model. Your...

Greetings to the Developer community: Thank you very much for an overwhelming response on our survey. Feedback is continue to pour. We are extending the deadline to complete the survey to September 16 th , 2011 to allow everyone to provide input. Your...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations Alpha 3 is now available. Six weeks back we released the first preview of Code First Migrations. This preview was called ‘Code First Migrations August 2011 CTP’. However, after some changes to how...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations Alpha 3 is now available.   We have released the second preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Alpha 2 . This release includes a preview of the developer...

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. Today we are making EF 4.2 Beta 1 available.   EF...

Greetings to the Developer community: Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 2 years, we completed surveys that focused on the broad SQL Connectivity components...