On Nov 27, 2007 I'll speak about Query Options for Entity Framework at DevTeach in Vancouver, BC. Following is a preliminary outline of the talk: An overview of the Query Pipeline and the processes that take place there. Shapes of results that...

A query issued through Entity Framework undergoes three main transformations: 1. Compilation 2. Query view expansion 3. Native SQL generation 1. Compilation Compilation is the process of producing a Command Tree. 1.1. Entity SQL 1...

Literals “abc” Value abc ‘abc’ Value abc 1 Value 1 {2} Value 2 {3, 4, 5} ...

ADO.NET’s Entity Client comes with a client-side query engine that provides a consistent entity-level platform over different store providers. The input to that query engine is an entity-level query written in a language naturally called Entity SQL ....