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Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 4 Adds EF 6 and Visual Studio 2013 Support
Microsoft has released Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 4 with support for Entity Framework 6 and Visual Studio 2013.
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ORM Profiler v1.5 with Entity Framework 6 and Async Support
ORM Profiler v1.5 has been released with support for Entity Framework 6 and Async in addition to several improvements and bug fixes.
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WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Adds Entity Framework 6 Support
The recently released WCF Data Services 5.6.0 provides support for Entity Framework 6 and provides an option either to upgrade or create nww OData services to target EF 6.
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ORMs And Persistence Ignorance
Julie Lerman recently noted that Entity Framework can work with classes having private constructors and private property setters, which promotes persistence ignorance. We explore further.
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Entity Framework 6 RC Adds SQL Logging, Testability Improvements and New IntelliSense Documentation
Microsoft has released release candidate version of Entity Framework 6 with support for interception, SQL logging, testability improvements. It also includes substantial changes to API, IntelliSense documentation.
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ASP.NET and Web Tools for VS 2013 Preview with One ASP.NET, New HTML Editor, MVC5, SignalR 2, EF 6
The recently released ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 includes new HTML editor for Razor and web project files, ability to build all type of ASP.NET applications from a single dialog, claims based authentication in addition to support for SignalR 2.00 Beta1 and Entity Framework 6.0.0 beta1.
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Entity Framework 6 Alpha 3 with Code First Stored Procedures and Connection Resiliency
Microsoft has released Entity Framework 6 Alpha 3 with support for code first stored procedures, connection resiliency, pull request from iceclow and UnaiZorrilla.
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Using the Domain Driven Design Bounded Context Concept to Shrink a Large Domain Model
Bounded Context concept from Domain Driven Design (DDD) can be used to divide a large model into smaller models using the Database Context (DbContext class) in Entity Framework (EF). Bounded Context creates smaller, more cohesive models with boundaries between models.
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Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 3 Released
Microsoft has recently released Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 3 with several bug fixes and features such as Reverse Engineer Code First.
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Microsoft Refreshed .NET Framework 4.5 with Updates
Microsoft has recently released updates for .NET Framework 4.5 which fixes reliability, compatibility, stability, and performance issues associated with WPF, CLR, Windows Forms, XML, NCL, ASP.NET, WWF, WCF and Entity Framework.
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Entity Framework 6 Alpha 2 with Custom Code First Conventions
Microsoft recently announced the release of Entity Framework Alpha 2 with custom code first conventions and several other performance enhancements.
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Entity Framework 6.0: Async, IQueryable Operators and Feature Improvements
According to Microsoft, Entity Framework 6.0 will provide support for async and can be implemented either using SaveChangesAsync() or ExecuteSqlCommandAsync() methods. Entity Framework 6.0 will also enable developers to perform async operations on IQueryable (IQueryable<T>) operator and can be implemented using FindAsync() and SingleAsync() extension methods.
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Entity Framework 5.0: Spatial Data Types, Performance Enhancements, Database Improvements
Entity Framework 5.0 provides support for spatial data types and can be implemented using DbGeography and DbGeometry classes. It also introduces automatic compilation of LINQ to Entities queries by translating inline LINQ queries in a cached mode. Hence, developers need not have to make use of CompiledQuery.Compile method as in previous versions.
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Enums, Entity Framework And WCF Data Services
Enumerations have been supported in Entity Framework 5 – however Enums are not yet supported in WCF Data Services, which means you still need to handle them explicitly when writing OData services.
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Entity Framework, Async – In Mono!
Entity Framework has been integrated into the Mono distribution as of 2.11.3 which means it can now be used even outside of the Windows platform. Mono also gets Async support on par with .NET 4.5.