This post is outdated, please see the updated walkthrough for CTP3 here Overview This post covers a new Entity Framework extension called Code Only. Code Only allows you to use the Entity Framework using POCO entities and without an EDMX file...

The following post refers to an old version of the POCO Template. You can find information about the POCO Template for Visual Studio 2010 RTM here Overview This post covers a new Entity Framework extension called POCO Templates. POCO Templates is...

Overview The goal of the following walkthrough is to demonstrate a basic scenario for the use of Self Tracking Entities with Entity Framework. Self Tracking Entities is a feature included in the Microsoft Entity Framework Community Technology Preview...

Today we are announcing the availability of the Microsoft Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 for the .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1. You can download the Feature CTP 1 from here . This Feature CTP enables a number of scenarios that we've mentioned on the blog...

If you have been watching this blog, you know that I have been discussing the various aspects of POCO capabilities we added to Entity Framework 4.0. POCO support makes it possible to do persistence ignorance with Entity Framework in a way that was never...

As a part of formulating our long term strategy for ADO.NET, we have had several discussions with number of our customers, internal and external partners, and MVPs to better align our development efforts to ensure we are delivering the right technologies...

In my last post on POCO , I mentioned the fact that there are two types of change tracking possibilities with POCO: Snapshot based Change Tracking and Notification based Change Tracking with Proxies. In this post, I would like to drill into both options...

Firebird recently announced the RTM of FirebirdClient 2.5. This new release now provides full support for the Entity Framework. To learn more about FirebirdClient 2.5 check out Jiri’s blog at http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/archive/2009/05/22/ann-firebirdclient...