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Since releasing Alpha 3 a few months ago, we've been working hard to add the remaining new features to the EF6 runtime and get the EF tooling ready to preview. Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6 Beta 1. We Want Your Feedback You can help us make EF6 a great release by providing...

We are very pleased to announce the release of Entity Framework 5. EF5 is available as the Entity Framework NuGet package and is also included in Visual Studio 2012 .   What’s New in EF5 EF 5 includes a number of new features and bug fixes to the EF4.3 release. Most of the new features are only...

It’s been a busy year on the Entity Framework team. A little over a year ago our team released EF4.1 , which included the DbContext API and Code First support. Since then we’ve also delivered Code First Migrations . Our team is also in the final stages of wrapping up the EF5 release , which introduces...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF.   A couple of months ago we released EF5 Beta 2. Since releasing Beta 2 we have made a number of changes to the code base, so we decided to publish a Release...

We have published a new version of the sample provider that supports features introduced in the Entity Framework 5. It can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Samples Gallery . This updated sample takes the sample provider code we released for Entity Framework 4 and demonstrates how to add support for spatial...

The Entity Framework Power Tools provide additional design-time tools in Visual Studio to help you develop using the Entity Framework. Today we are releasing Beta 2 of the Power Tools.   Where do I get it? The Entity Framework Power Tools are available on the Visual Studio Gallery. You can also...

Over the past few weeks the EF team has been putting together a whitepaper that talks about the performance considerations developers should take when using Entity Framework. Performance is one critical aspect of developing modern applications, and this document will help developers make informed design...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF.   A few weeks ago we released EF5 Beta 1, since then we’ve been working to improve quality and polish up the release. Today we are making EF5 Beta 2 available...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF.   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...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF.   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...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Code First Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj591621   We have released the first go-live release of our Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Automatic Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj554735   We have released the first go-live release of our Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Code First Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj591621   At the end of November we released Beta 1 of Code First Migrations. At the time we released Code...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Code First Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj591621   We have released the final preview of the Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Automatic Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj554735   We have released the final preview of the Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework...

The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Configuration File Settings see http://msdn.com/data/jj556606 We recently released Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 which includes the ability to configure more DbContext...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Code First Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj591621   At the end of September we released Alpha 3 of Code First Migrations. Based on Alpha 2 and Alpha...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Code First Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj591621   We have released the fourth preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Automatic Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj554735   We have released the fourth preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF.   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...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF.   The EF team has been working to become more agile and get new features into your hands faster. Our first two releases shipped as part of the .NET Framework...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF.   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...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Code First to a New Database see http://msdn.com/data/jj193542 For Code First to an Existing Database see http://msdn.com/data/jj200620   This post will provide...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Model First see http://msdn.com/data/jj205424 For Database First see http://msdn.com/data/jj206878   This post will provide an introduction to Model First...

  The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF. For Code First Migrations see http://msdn.com/data/jj591621   A couple of weeks ago we released Alpha 2 of Code First Migrations. Today we are happy to make Alpha...