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Over the last year we’ve seen a marked increase in traffic on the ADO.NET blog, which has...
Date: 06/05/2012
One of the most highly-requested features for the Entity Framework is first-class support for Enums,...
Date: 08/12/2011
We recently shipped Entity Framework 4.1, and it has been exciting to see the reception the new Code...
Date: 06/29/2011
One of the highly-anticipated features coming in the next version of Entity Framework is Spatial...
Date: 05/12/2011
Pedro Ardila Normal Pedro Ardila 2 5 2011-05-04T21:47:00Z 2011-05-04T21:47:00Z 2 1238 7060 Microsoft...
Date: 05/04/2011
Update: this feature has been postponed and will not be included in Entity Framework 5. Unique...
Date: 03/09/2011
One of the key features coming in the next release of Entity Framework is Table-Valued Function...
Date: 01/21/2011
Back in July we released the latest preview of Code First and we’ve been receiving a lot of...
Date: 10/22/2010
The team has been quietly working on a number of improvements to the entity designer that we would...
Date: 10/11/2010
The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on...
Date: 09/08/2010
Background We’ve been hearing a lot of good feedback on the recently released update to the...
Date: 06/21/2010
The latest preview of Code First allows you to describe a model using C# or VB.Net classes. The...
Date: 06/01/2010
The first release of Entity Framework shipped in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008....
Date: 04/12/2010
Data annotation attributes were introduced in .NET 3.5 as a way to add validation to classes used by...
Date: 03/30/2010
We recently released an updated version of the POCO template that works with Visual Studio 2010 RC...
Date: 03/10/2010
We’ve come a long way since the last post on Code-Only. So it’s high time for another update. We’ve...
Date: 10/12/2009
As part of the first previews of Code-Only we shared some code to create a database: // Create a...
Date: 10/06/2009
Introduction After completing the WidgetFactory walkthrough, you may be wondering how to convert...
Date: 08/13/2009
Introduction This walkthrough is designed to show you how the new dbml to edmx conversion template...
Date: 08/13/2009
Many customers have asked us how to port a LINQ to SQL application to the Entity Framework. In order...
Date: 08/13/2009
We've been working hard on Code Only since the first preview.In the next release you will be able to...
Date: 08/03/2009
There are currently two ways to get Entity Framework apps up and running, we call these Database...
Date: 06/10/2009
Background One of the biggest pieces of feedback we received from the N-Tier Improvements for Entity...
Date: 03/23/2009
Background A number of months ago we asked whether Foreign Keys (FKs) in Conceptual and Object...
Date: 03/16/2009
When VS 2010 ships it will include some significant improvements to our code generation story for...
Date: 01/22/2009
A while back I wrote a post that introduced the concept of Computed Properties. Since that time...
Date: 01/12/2009
Today the Entity Framework, and more specifically the Entity Data Model, have a limited notion of...
Date: 01/07/2009
Unfortunately in the current version of the Entity Framework, which ships in .NET 3.5 SP1, we don't...
Date: 12/01/2008
The first version of Entity Framework provides convenient ways to load, manipulate and persist...
Date: 11/20/2008
If you are reading this, you have probably heard by now about the so called impedance mismatch...
Date: 10/27/2008
In this post Colin Meek and Diego Vega delve into some enhancements we are planning for LINQ to...
Date: 10/08/2008
One of the most painful omissions from the Entity Framework V1 was Model First, which basically...
Date: 09/10/2008
In V1 of the Entity Framework it is possible to annotate a schema using attributes declared in...
Date: 08/12/2008
Evolving an API to support new requirements, like POCO, while maintaining backward compatibility is...
Date: 08/01/2008
V1 of the Entity Framework allows you to use stored procedures in two main ways: Mapping Create,...
Date: 07/18/2008
Two guys on the team knocked out this quick screencast of some of the prototype work we've been...
Date: 06/24/2008
Here is a raw cut and paste for our POCO 1-Pager. We are currently working through the design and...
Date: 06/24/2008
Today marks the first day of engineering for the ADO.NET Entity Framework V2.0. V2 of the product is...
Date: 06/23/2008