With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 coming up, we thought it would be useful to highlight some notable features & bug fixes coming out in the new release of the Entity Data Model Designer. We divided these into "Big Features", "Little...

For Visual Studio 2010, we added a number of extensibility points to the Entity Designer. Property Annotations: This let's you add custom annotations to most of the items in your EF model (based on a new feature in the EF Runtime known as Structured...

A major feature that we added to the ADO.NET Entity Designer for Visual Studio 2010 was the ability to create a database based on your conceptual model (a.k.a. "Model First"). To use this feature, start out by adding a new ADO.NET Entity Data Model to...

The Entity Designer in VS 2010 has a number of new extensibility points. If you are interested in writing extensions for the designer, you should definitely check out the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer Extension Starter Kit over on Code Gallery. ...

Yesterday, we announced the availability of the Open Data Protocol Visualizer . This installs from the Visual Studio Gallery and provides visualization for any WCF Data Service (a.k.a. ADO.NET Data Services, a.k.a. Astoria). This is an exciting release...

Last summer, the senior developer on the Entity Designer team (Mike Kaufman) wrote a series of blog posts over on the ADO.NET team blog about how the designer uses the public APIs found in System.Data.Entity.Design.dll to do its model generation and code...

I have heard quite a few folks ask questions about how to use their keyboard more when using the Entity Designer. Many people can be more productive if they are able to use more of the keyboard (reduce mouse clicks). Fortunately, Visual Studio has ways...

Starting a new blog today, hoping to spend some time talking about Entity Framework Tooling and other topics.