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...

We recently posted about our plans to rationalize how we name, distribute and talk about releases. The feedback we have heard so far is confirming that we are headed down the right track. Following the plans we shared, the next installment of Entity Framework...

The EF team has been working toward being more agile and having a higher release frequency. We are also releasing more previews and making them available earlier in the release cycle so that your feedback can help shape the product. This effort has seen...

This content is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . We recently released the first preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations August 2011...