Posted by Oleg Sych December 27, 2009 As described on MSDN , ADO.NET Entity Framework is a set of technologies that enables developers to work with data in the form of domain-specific objects and properties, such as customers and customer addresses without having to concern themselves with the...
The following are Entity Framework features that are not currently supported by the Entity Designer. Multiple entity sets per type. Creating entity sets for non-root types. Table-per-concrete class mapping. Using EntityType properties in mapping conditions. Unmapped abstract types. When you create...
Creating a full blown url shrinking service was pocking around in my mind for quite some time(of course by using Twitter). Since I heard quite a few good things on Entity Framework 4.0 , so I decided to start with it. The first thing I usually do when developing an application is creating the domain...
Today I thought I would talk about a really common scenario in data applications, creating a master-details (one-to-many) data entry form. I’ve written about WPF data binding and Entity Framework a lot in the past: Videos: How Do I: Get Started with Entity Framework in WPF Applications? How Do...
The new support for POCO in Entity Framework seeks to enable better ways of coding application domain logic without polluting domain classes with persistence concerns. Persistence Ignorance can in fact improve maintainability, testability and evolvability of an application by making it possible...
Many customers have asked us how to port a LINQ to SQL application to the Entity Framework. In order to make this process easier, we have developed a metadata conversion template. This template converts LINQ to SQL metadata (.dbml) to metadata compatible with Entity Framework (.edmx). While...
In the next release you will be able to specify: Navigation Property Inverses. Property Facets, like Nullability, MaxLength, Precision etc. Property to Column mappings Type to Table(s) mappings Inheritance strategy Encapsulate configuration The rest of this post will drill into each of these features...