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 4.3 The notable changes between EF 4.2 and EF 4.3...

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 on the code-based workflow for using migrations...

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 on the workflow that combines automatic and code...

This preview is no longer current. A go-live release of Entity Framework 4.3 is now available. At the end of November we released Beta 1 of Code First Migrations. At the time we released Code First Migration Beta 1 we also announced that we would be rolling the migrations work into the main EntityFramework...

This preview is no longer current. A go-live release of Entity Framework 4.3 is now available. We have released the final preview of the Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 . This post will provide an overview of the functionality that is available inside of Visual Studio...

This preview is no longer current. A go-live release of Entity Framework 4.3 is now available. We have released the final preview of the Code First Migrations work as part of Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 . This post will provide an overview of the functionality that is available inside of Visual Studio...

We recently released Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 which includes the ability to configure more DbContext and Code First related settings from your applications Web.config or App.config file. These Settings are Optional Code First and the DbContext API follow a ‘convention over configuration’ principle...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . At the end of September we released Alpha 3 of Code First Migrations. Based on Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 feedback your telling us that we are building the right thing… so it’s time...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . We have released the fourth preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Beta 1 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . We have released the fourth preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Beta 1 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience...

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. We then shipped a Beta and a Release Candidate of EF 4.2. Today we are making the final release of EF 4.2 available...

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 but, as the result of an effort to release more often, in recent times we have been shipping a slew of “out-of-band” features that build...

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. We then shipped EF 4.2 Beta 1. Third party EF provider writers tried out EF 4.2 Beta 1 and identified...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . A couple of weeks ago we released Alpha 2 of Code First Migrations. Today we are happy to make Alpha 3 available to you. The overall feedback we got on Alpha 2 was that you like...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . We have released the third preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Alpha 3 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . We have released the third preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Alpha 3 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience...

Entity Framework Code First is a development methodology available beginning with the Entity Framework 4.1. When using Code First development you usually begin by writing C# or Visual Basic .NET classes that define your conceptual (domain) model. Your model can then be used to generate a database schema...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . Six weeks back we released the first preview of Code First Migrations. This preview was called ‘Code First Migrations August 2011 CTP’. However, after some changes to how we name...

This preview is no longer current. Code First Migrations is included in Entity Framework starting with Entity Framework 4.3 . We have released the second preview of our migrations story for Code First development; Code First Migrations Alpha 2 . This release includes a preview of the developer experience...

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 4.2 = Bug Fix + Semantic Versioning When we released...

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 will be EF 4.2, this post will share the...

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 us publishing a much higher number of releases...

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 CTP . We released this preview early in the development...

Back in April we announced the release of Entity Framework 4.1 (EF 4.1), today we are releasing Entity Framework 4.1 – Update 1. This is a refresh of the EF 4.1 release that includes a small number of bug fixes and some new types to support the upcoming migrations preview. What’s in Update...

A while back we announced the release of Entity Framework 4.1 (EF 4.1). Today we are making a series of language packs available that provide localized resources for EF 4.1. What’s a Language Pack? The language packs add a set of localized resources to an existing EF 4.1 install. Each language pack contains...