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Entity Framework 7: New Platforms and New Data Stores
Entity Framework was created solely for working with relational data on the full version of .NET. In EF 7, neither of those statements is true.
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Entity Framework 7 Not Recommended for ASP.NET 4
Version 7 of Entity Framework represents a major redesign of the 6-year-old ORM. As such, Microsoft will not be recommending the initial release of EF 7 for existing projects. Rather, it is only meant for projects that are using ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core.
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Dramatically Improve Entity Framework Performance with Bulk Operations
When a database administrators think of high performance data loading, they are thinking of bulk operations, a feature noticeably lacking in Entity Framework. But that doesn’t have to be the case. We recently spoke with Jonathan Magnan of ZZZ Projects about their new offerings.
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Rebooting Entity Framework
Entity Framework is being rebooted with an initiative called “Entity Framework Everywhere”. The goal of this project is dramatically reduce both the complexity of Entity Framework and the resources needed to run applications that use it. This will in turn allow it to run on a wider variety of platforms including Windows Store and Windows Phone.
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DynamicData and EntityDataSource Updated with Entity Framework 6 Support
Microsoft recently added Entity Framework 6 support for DynamicData and EntityDataSource controls with in addition to refreshed the templates. It also has few known issues as the support is limited to C# and Web Application projects.
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Large Model Problems Continue to Plague Entity Framework, NHibernate
Entity Framework continues to have performance problems when using larger EDMX models to generate classes. “If the EDMX only has one entity type materialization takes 840 ms […] but when the EDMX contains a richer model, for example one with 67 entity types and 92 associations, the same test takes 7246 ms to complete”.
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RadControls for WPF and Silverlight Q2 2013 SP1 with Entity Framework 6 Support and Several Features
Telerik has released RadControls for WPF and Silverlight Q2 2013 SP1 with the ability to change application icon set during runtime in addition to support for Entity Framework 6. It also provides an ability to pass event arguments to command when using Telerik EventToCommandBehavior in addition to several new features and improvements.
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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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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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Telerik Reporting Q2 2013 SP1 Adds Graph Interactivity and Entity Framework Support
The recent release of Telerik Reporting Q2 2013 SP1 includes support for enhanced graph interactivity, Entity Framework and context menus of Graph items in addition to bug fixes.
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Mono Now Has Portable Class Library Support
With their focus on Xamarin, the commercial version of Mono, it often seems like Mono is being is being neglected. But the nine year old platform is still seeing active development. Mono 3.0.12 brings with several new features including support for Portable Class Libraries and cookies in WCF.
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Abstract Interfaces vs Abstract Base Classes in Entity Framework 6
As part of the beta 1 release, Entity Framework 6 has added new methods to DbSet: AddRange, RemoveRange, and FindAsync. But what will happen with IDbSet, the matching abstract interface?
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Entity Framework 6 Brings Breaking Changes
In order to support the new open source model for Entity Framework, it had to cut its ties to the core distribution of the .NET Framework. Unfortunately this required a breaking change to the namespaces exposed by the ORM in version 6.
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Stored Procedures and Entity Framework
Much has been written on the topic of ORMs and its failings. Most of the objections fall into two categories: Separation of Concerns and Object Oriented Design. For the Entity Framework we have good news for one these.