Today we are pleased to announce the release of two new versions of the EntityFramework NuGet package. The 4.3.1 version includes some bug fixes for the 4.3 package we released a few weeks ago. We are also making the first beta of EF 5 available as a...

An O/RM, like any layer of abstraction, introduces overhead to data access. In EF 5.0 we have taken steps to reduce this overhead and improve performance. As a result in one of our tests, repeat execution time of the same LINQ query has been reduced by...

Over the last six months we’ve released a series of previews of our Code First Migrations work. Today we are making the first fully supported go-live release of our migrations work available as part of EF 4.3.   What Changed Between EF 4.2 and EF...

We have released the first go-live release of our Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework 4.3 . This post will provide an overview of the functionality that is available inside of Visual Studio for interacting with migrations. We will focus...

We have released the first go-live release of our Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework 4.3 . This post will provide an overview of the functionality that is available inside of Visual Studio for interacting with migrations. We will focus...