A few weeks ago I had a very interesting email exchange with Jeffrey Palermo in which he raised some important questions about the Entity Framework. Here’s an excerpt from his original query (used by permission): I've been thinking a lot about the...

In a previous post I explained how the Entity Framework supported custom construction of entity objects in Orcas beta 1 and before. Unfortunately, the whole mechanism was way too complex and brittle. So, we went back to the drawing board (or the whiteboard...

Several weeks ago (in this post ), I said that there would be a delay before I wrote more about the topic of persistence ignorance and the entity framework because I wanted to spend some time learning more about the viewpoint of those folks asking for...