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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...