July 2008 - Posts

Using Stored Procedures to load structured data.
18 July 08 06:59 PM | efdesign | 6 Comments   

V1 of the Entity Framework allows you to use stored procedures in two main ways: Mapping Create, Update and Delete entity operations to appropriate stored procedures. Doing a FunctionImport that allows you to return an enumeration of Entities* Now the Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, EDM, Stored Procedures, Mapping, Entity Framework 4

Transparent Caching Support in the Entity Framework
09 July 08 09:43 PM | efdesign | 14 Comments   

The Entity Framework's provider model makes it possible for it to work over different database's. The idea being that someone, either the database vendor or a third party, can write a provider that allows the Entity Framework to work with that database. Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, Providers, Caching, Entity Framework 4