January 2009 - Posts

Customizing Entity Classes in VS 2010
22 January 09 07:15 PM | efdesign | 23 Comments   

When VS 2010 ships it will include some significant improvements to our code generation story for the Entity Framework. The basic idea is to make use of T4 templates for code generation and ship strong integration into the Entity Framework Designer to Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, Customization, Designer, Entity Framework 4

Update on Computed Properties
13 January 09 04:27 AM | efdesign | 9 Comments   

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 Read More...

Filed under: EDM, Reporting, Functions, Entity Framework 4

Model Defined Functions
07 January 09 08:32 PM | efdesign | 21 Comments   

Today the Entity Framework, and more specifically the Entity Data Model, have a limited notion of Functions. We are currently restricted to Function Imports that allow stored procedures to be invoked, and Canonical / Store Functions for database independent Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, EDM, Linq to Entities, Functions, eSQL, Entity Framework 4