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We have just released a new version of the Feature CTP that works on top of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. I have been focusing on Self-Tracking Entities a lot lately, and so it feels great to have this out for people to try it and give us feedback on it.
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A customer recently asked if there is still any advantage in using the entities that Entity Framework 4 generates by default instead of POCO classes. Another way to look at this is: why are non-POCO classes that inherit from System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EntityObject
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The new support for POCO in Entity Framework seeks to enable better ways of coding application domain logic without polluting domain classes with persistence concerns. Persistence Ignorance can in fact improve maintainability, testability and evolvability
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I haven’t met Beth in person but I noticed her awesome blog posts and videos focused on using Entity Framework with WPF. Very useful stuff!
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I don’t post much on my blog lately (too busy working on Entity Framework for .NET 4!), but this post from my teammate Rowan struck me as something that would help lots of customers, so I wanted to link to it. It explains basically everything you need
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It is always busy here with all the improvements we are doing in Entity Framework to make your code work better with it. That is why I haven’t been posting to my blog much in the last months. Today however, there are two important posts from people that
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I answered a Connect issue today that deals with a very common expectation for users of systems like Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL. The issue was something like this: When I run a query, I expect entities that I have added to the context and that are
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This post is about a small issue that I have seen in the forums and that arises often in cases in which EntityDataSource is used in combination with bound controls that use templates, like FormsView or a GridView with template based columns. If you can
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Alex published today a description Colin and I wrote on a new feature the team has been working on for LINQ to Entities. Beyond all technicalities, it is a very simple and attribute-based way of exposing any arbitrary server-side function to LINQ. It
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One of our customers asked this question yesterday on the Entity Framework forums. There were a few details missing and so I am not completely sure I got the question right. But I think it is about an issue I have heard quite a bit, and so I think it
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I have been back from vacation for some time but I haven't had time to post anything (i.e. I was on vacation the day Entity Framework went RTM in .NET 3.5 SP1!). Finally, something happened that I cannot wait to talk about. Jarek and I went discussing
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This new sample builds on top of System.Data.OracleClient and showcases some techniques a provider writer targeting databases different from SQL Server can use. The code is not meant for production, just a sample directed to provider writers. It has also
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Just to get the news out: The updated version of the Entity Framework Sample Provider that is compatible with .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta is now available in our Code Gallery page . From the description: The Sample Provider wraps System.Data.SqlClient and demonstrates
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I explained a few days ago the rules of wrapping in this blog post . But why do we wrap after all? Julie asked for some details today in the forums. I think the answer is worth of a blog post. In ASP.NET there are different ways of specifying which property
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Just a couple of links: Colin posted a refresh today today that is compatible with .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta and includes some optimizations for the materializer using dynamic methods. Here is his post about it.
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