When considering how your application will connect to a data source, there’s a variety of technologies, patterns, and architectures to consider. Recently we published a “ Summary of Data Access Guidance ” on the MSDN Data Developer Center...

Jarek Kowalski built a great caching and tracing toolkit that makes it easy to add these two features onto the Entity Framework. His code sample plugs in as a provider that wraps the original store provider you intend to use. This guide will help you...

Now that Entity Framework 4.0 has shipped , the team’s working hard to add more great features for the next release. As part of this process, it’s critical that we hear your feedback, as it helps us ensure that what we build actually meets...

We recently announced the release of Feature CTP4 for the ADO.Net Entity Framework (EF). CTP4 contains a preview of new features that we are considering adding to the core framework and would like community feedback on. CTP4 builds on top of the existing...