Join Table Hiding Improvements in EF4? Workarounds?

After inquiring on the official forums about new features in Entity Framework 4.0 around join tables this is what I heard back. In short, no new news. Which is too bad. Our model doesn’t really model entities until we have some way of hiding the join tables or otherwise demoting them to second-class [...]

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Entity Framework 2.0 er… 4.0 (.NET Rocks!)

Just finished another excellent podcast from .NET Rocks which this time discussed the new features of the Entity Framework which is currently out in beta. While I haven’t had a chance to give it a try myself I’m very interested in what Daniel Simmons described. Having written off the EF as “not ready yet” and [...]

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xSQL Profiler – Free Sql Server Profiler

One of my biggest complaints about the Express versions of Sql Server is that Sql Profiler is specifically excluded, a full Sql Server license is required instead. I managed to do without Sql Profiler just fine until I was working on some Entity Framework code and wanted the see the sql getting generated. It certainly [...]

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N-Tier Applications of the Entity Framework

Interesting if somewhat scathing discussion of using the Entity Framework for n-tier applications from the developers/designers of the next version of the Entity Framework. The feedback has inspired me to look at nHibernate again, and makes me wonder if the Entity Framework is really as safe a bet as one would assume Microsoft’s implementation of [...]

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