March 2009 - Posts

Self-Tracking Entities in the Entity Framework
24 March 09 02:50 AM | efdesign | 67 Comments   

Background One of the biggest pieces of feedback we received from the N-Tier Improvements for Entity Framework post as well as other sources was: “low level APIs are great, but where is the end-to-end architecture for N-tier and the Entity Framework?”. Read More...

Filed under: POCO, Self-Tracking Entities, T4, Templates, Entity Framework 4

Foreign Keys in the Entity Framework
16 March 09 09:47 PM | efdesign | 35 Comments   

Background A number of months ago we asked whether Foreign Keys (FKs) in Conceptual and Object models were important. The feedback we got indicated that there are a real mix of opinions on the topic. Some people are all for them while others think that Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, EDM, N-Tier, Designer, FKs, Entity Framework 4