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  The information in this post is out of date.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  The information in this post is out of date.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.   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...

  The information in this post is out of date.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.   Last year we wrote about some performance considerations when using TPT inheritance in the Entity Framework .  We are pleased to announce that with the...

  The information in this post is out of date.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. If you have previously installed this preview, please follow the uninstall instructions detailed below . We are excited to announce the availability of the Microsoft...

  The information in this post is out of date.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 Enum Support in Code First see http://msdn.com/data/hh859576 For Enum Support in the EF Designer see http://msdn.com/data/jj248772   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  The information in this post is out of date.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 Spatial Support in Code First see http://msdn.com/data/hh859721 For Spatial Support in the EF Designer see http://msdn.com/data/jj250903   Spatial data is...

  The information in this post is out of date.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 Table-Valued Functions see http://msdn.com/data/hh859577   Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP is bringing support for Table-Valued Functions. TVFs are...

The information in this post has been removed as it is out of date. For Multiple Result Sets see http://msdn.com/data/jj691402 . Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on current and past releases of EF.

The information in this post is out of date.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. In this post you’ll see how Code First and the DbContext class in Entity Framework 4.1 RC will work with WCF Data Services going forward. WCF Data Services in .NET 4.0 was...

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 WPF Databinding with EF see http://msdn.com/data/jj574514   In December we released ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 5 (CTP5). In addition...

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 Windows Forms Data Binding see http://msdn.com/data/jj682076 In December we released ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 5 (CTP5...

  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 pluggable conventions feature was removed from the EF4.1 release. You can track this feature at http://entityframework.codeplex.com/workitem/61 .   We have...

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. Validation is a new feature introduced in Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 5 (CTP5) which enables to automatically validate entities before trying to...

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 Code First allows you to map your...

  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 latest Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview (CTP5) is now available for download . This CTP includes updates to the Code First feature...

  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   We have released...

  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   We have released Entity Framework Feature Community Technology...

  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 Mapping with the Fluent API see http://msdn.com/data/jj591617 For Configuring Relationships with the Fluent API see http://msdn.com/data/jj591620   We have...

Next week there’s two exciting conferences happening – SQL PASS and TechEd Europe , and the EF and OData teams will be at both! Check out the session lineup below, and if you’re there please swing by the booth and say hello. SQL PASS Introduction to the Entity Framework ...

Both the Entity Framework and OData teams will be at PDC this week, with several great talks planned – and the best part is they’re being streamed live over the web! Code First Development with Entity Framework Thursday October 28 th , 2:00 – 3:00pm (PST) http://player.microsoftpdc...

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. If you want to drill deeper into the material...

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. 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...

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 your requirements in real-world scenarios. Today...

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 We recently...

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 Performance Considerations see http://msdn.com/data/hh949853 The Entity Framework offers very rich inheritance mapping schemes for building...