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Pluralization
02 December 08 12:20 AM | efdesign | 13 Comments   

Unfortunately in the current version of the Entity Framework, which ships in .NET 3.5 SP1, we don't make any attempt to Singularize or Pluralize names when reverse engineering a model from the database. So if, for example, your database has a table called Read More...

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Model First
10 September 08 09:55 PM | efdesign | 42 Comments   

One of the most painful omissions from the Entity Framework V1 was Model First, which basically means creating a conceptual 'model first' and then deriving a storage model, database and mappings from that. People ask for this scenario all the time in Read More...

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Structural Annotations - One Pager
12 August 08 08:50 PM | efdesign | 3 Comments   

In V1 of the Entity Framework it is possible to annotate a schema using attributes declared in another XSD. However XML attributes are a very limited form of annotation. It would be better if we could annotate using full elements. This is what we are Read More...

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