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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:26 PM

What Do ObjectQuery’s Builder Methods Build

Until Beta 2 ObjectQuery’s builder methods used to build a Command Tree. There were multiple problems with that: · Duplicate code - there is already a component that builds Command Trees from Entity SQL. · Caching – Command Trees are expensive to hash
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:51 PM

How to Get the Native SQL from an ObjectQuery

The way to get the native SQL generated for an ObjectQuery is exactly the same as for EntityCommand – using the new ToTraceString() method introduced in Beta 3. Previously that would require a similar (even more obscure) pattern that involved ObjectQuery.CreateCommandTree()
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:31 PM

How to Get the Native SQL from an EntityCommand

With the Beta 3 release, Entity Framework is introducing an easy way to get the native SQL from an EntityCommand. There was public API to get to the native SQL, but the pattern was too obscure, and I don’t want to go into detail. Let’s discuss the new
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:09 PM

How to Do Custom Mapping Using Entity SQL Views

This post was intended to be a reply to this question http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=2440161&siteid=1 on the Entity Framework forum, but its size exceeds the forum server limit. Besides, it’s useful in general. So I decided
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Friday, November 16, 2007 2:31 PM

How to Parse an EntityDataReader

2007.12.18 : Please accept my apologies – today I discovered (and fixed) two bugs in the parsing code. One is a silly error. The other is that collections should be treated as primitive types and refs with regard to the number of fields. The code bellow
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Friday, November 16, 2007 12:18 PM

XSL Transformation of CSDL into HTML

The attached XSL script neatly renders an Entity Framework CSDL file into HTML. Below is the NorthwindEF model that we’ve been using for our samples, rendered using that XSL script: Northwind Entity Sets Entity Types Complex Types Associations Entity
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:36 AM

Entity SQL Tip #1

A well defined query against a well defined entity data model does not need JOIN . Navigation properties in combination with nesting sub-queries should be used instead. These latter constructs represent task requirements much more closely than JOIN does.
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