December, 2007

Announcing the release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 ! The ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 release enables users to visually design models and mappings using Visual Studio 2008 RTM and the .NET Framework 3.5 RTM. This release also incorporates...

As you're hopefully aware, Beta 3 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework is already available. If not, see the ADO.NET team blog here . You may not be aware of the various ADO.NET provider writers who are publicly pledging their support for the Entity Framework...

You asked and we listened. The Dec 2007 CTP of the Entity Designer is available here and works over Visual Studio 2008 RTM and the Entity Framework runtime beta 3. We have enhanced the designer to enable several new scenarios and fixed a slew of bugs...

We have created a new Camtasia video that demonstrates a number of important new features in the Entity Data Model Tools December CTP. First, it is now possible to visually map the insert, update, and delete stored procedures for entity types. Additionally...

We've updated the sample provider to work with Beta 3 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The sample provider is available for download as an attachment to this blog post. The sample provider has undergone some minor changes in moving from Beta 2 to Beta...

There were a number of changes to the Entity Framework between Beta 2 and Beta 3 that will require updates to existing source code. These breaking changes can be found here including the mitigation for adjusting to the new behavior, and a side by side...

Hi – I’m Faisal Mohamood and I’m a Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and Object Services for Entity Framework. I’m a fairly recent addition to the team, and prior to this I was Program Manager on the Visual Studio Platform team, looking after parts of MSBuild...

The December CTP of ADO.NET Data Services (also known as Project Astoria) has been Released! You can download the CTP here as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview release . For more information on ADO.NET Data Services check out http://blogs...

Sanjay Nagamangalam, the lead PM for the Entity Designer, has written up a great how-to for using existing EF metadata files in the new CTP2 designer, posted on Danny Simmons' blog.

My name is Diego Vega and I joined the Entity Framework team in last October. I am the new Program Manager working on LINQ to Entities & Databinding. My background is in software development and before coming to Microsoft I worked for ISVs and...

Alex recently joined the ADO.NET Team as a Metadata PM for the EDM and EF, and is an avid blogger. You can check out Alex's personal blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/ to learn more about him and what he is working on, and expect to see more of Alex...