A while back I wrote a post that introduced the concept of Computed Properties . Since that time we’ve had a number of conversations with both customers and internal partners and we’ve had some new ideas, that have changed our thinking somewhat. First off we decided to implement Model Defined Functions...

In V1 of the Entity Framework it is possible to annotate a schema using attributes declared in another XSD. However XML attributes are a very limited form of annotation. It would be better if we could annotate using full elements. This is what we are calling Structural Annotations. This feature...

UPDATE: this blog post is out of date. Please review this instead. If you've been paying attention to what the Entity Framework team has been saying. You will remember hearing us talk about using the Entity Data Model (EDM) as a common way of describing models that can be understood by many different...