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One of the things that’s cool about working on the EF team and getting the chance to talk to customers about what we do and answer questions and such is that I get to hear about lots of things that folks outside the EF team do with the EF.  It’s...

This week I gave a talk at TechEd focusing on architectural considerations as well as some useful tips for creating n-tier applications with the Entity Framework v3.5SP1.  The code from the simple sample application is now available at http://code...

In case you haven’t heard yet, VS 2010 beta 1 and .Net 4 beta 1 are now available for public download, and that means EF4 beta 1 is available as well: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx Lots of goodies!  Check it out, and let us...

Yesterday, while we were here at TechEd, Alex James and I sat down and recorded a short discussion about POCO and other features coming EF4.  Check it out at: http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=ef76e96c-7471-44a6-aa88-1ada037471ca - Danny

Should have included this info in the last post, but better late than never.  If you have questions about EF4 beta 1, the place to ask is the EF4 pre-release forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adonetefx/threads If you are looking...

I’m off to TechEd North America in LA next week where I’ll be presenting a 400-level session titled “Applied Entity Framework”.  The session will mostly be focused on helping folks be more successful using EF3.5sp1 but also with some info about features...

I’m off at TechEd this week talking to customers about the EF—especially about ways to be successful using the EF right now with 3.5sp1.  Meanwhile, though, we’re getting close to releasing the first beta of EF4 (yeah!).  As we gear up for that...