Entity Framework 6 Easter of Love
While Entity Framework Core along with ASP.NET Core get all the hype today, Entity Framework 6 is still the workhorse of many applications running every day which won’t be converted to the Core world...
View ArticleEntity Framework View Generation Templates Updated for Visual Studio 2015
Entity Framework 7 may be around the corner and when it ships view generation will no longer be a concern because EF7 is not using views to abstract the database anymore. As of now, however, EF7 is...
View ArticleThe final version of the Store Functions for EntityFramework 6.1.1+ Code...
Today I posted the final version of the Store Functions for Entity Framework Code First convention to NuGet. The instructions for downloading and installing the latest version of the package to your...
View ArticleThe final version of the Second Level Cache for EF6.1+ available.
This is it! Today I pushed the final version of the Second Level Cache for Entity Framework 6.1+ to NuGet. Now you no longer need to use -Pre when installing the package from the Package Manager...
View ArticleThe Beta Version of Store Functions for EntityFramework 6.1.1+ Code First...
This is very exciting! Finally after some travelling and getting the beta-2 version of the Second Level Cache for EF 6.1+ out the door I was able to focus on store functions for EF Code First. I pushed...
View ArticleSecond Level Cache Beta-2 for EntityFramework 6.1+ shipped
When I published the Beta version of EFCache back in May I intentionally did not call it Beta-1 since at that time I did not plan to ship Beta-2. Instead, I wanted to go straight to the RTM. Alas! It...
View ArticleInteractive Pre-Generated Views for EF6 Now Supports .NET Framework 4
Interactive Pre-Generated Views for EF6 project has been updated to support both .NET Framework 4 and .NET Framework 4.5. I published the new version (1.0.1) of the EFInteractiveViews NuGet package...
View ArticleSecond Level Cache Beta for EF 6.1 Available
It took a bit longer than I expected but the Beta version of the Second Level Cache for EF 6.1 is now available on NuGet with the source available on Codeplex. What’s new in the beta version. Support...
View ArticleSecond Level Cache Alpha 2 Available
About a week ago I published on NuGet the Alpha-2 version of the EFCache. It does not contain a whole lot of new things. In fact it contains just one change – a fix to a bug which prevented from using...
View ArticleSupport for Store Functions (TVFs and Stored Procs) in Code First (Entity...
Until Entity Framework 6.1 was released store functions (i.e. Table Valued Functions and Stored Procedures) could be used in EF only when doing Database First. There were some workarounds which made it...
View ArticleSecond Level Cache for EF 6.1
Currently Entity Framework does not natively support second level caching. For pre-EF6 versions you could use EF Caching Provider Wrapper but due to changes to the EF provider model in EF6 it does not...
View ArticleUsing Pre-Generated Views Without Having To Pre-Generate Views (EF6)
To be able to work with different databases Entity Framework abstracts the store as a set of views which are later used to create queries and CUD (Create/Update/Delete) commands. EF generates views the...
View ArticleWhat changed in the EF Tooling in Visual Studio 2013 (and Visual Studio 2012...
The recently shipped version of Visual Studio 2013 contains a new version of EF Tooling (a standalone version for Visual Studio 2012 is also available for download). The main goal of this release was...
View ArticleEF6 CodeFirst View Generation T4 Template for C# updated for EF6 RTM
The story around pre-generated views in pre-release versions of EF6 was far from glorious. First, things did not work in EF6 Beta1 due to this bug. Then the bug was fixed but due to other changes in...
View ArticleT4 Templates for Generating Views for EF4/EF5 Database/Model First apps
After we received a comment on the EF team blog asking why the templates for generating views for Edmx based apps we posted years ago were not updated for EF5 Rowan asked me if I it would be possible...
View ArticleEF Designer now supports EF6
Some time ago I showed how to hack the EF Designer shipped with Visual Studio 2012 to work with EF6. Those hacks should be no longer needed – last week we shipped Entity Framework 6 Beta1 which for the...
View ArticleEF6 CodeFirst View Generation T4 Template for C# updated for EF6 Beta1
Entity Framework 6 Beta 1 has shipped. The good news is that among (many) others it contains a few changes to view generation. There is now a public API on the StorageMappingItemCollection type that...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi + Mono + EF6 – defeat!
After (or maybe even before) I successfully made EF6 work on Mono I thought it would be cool to try it on Raspberry Pi. Since my project already worked on Mono I thought it should be relatively easy to...
View ArticleEntity Framework 6 on Mono
I had been wanting to try Entity Framework 6 with Mono for a long time and finally after a check-in I made on Friday I was able to spare some time to do this. I decided to go with MySQL and dotConnect...
View ArticleMy First Encounter with Custom Conventions in Entity Framework 6
I was not really involved in the work related to custom conventions in EF6 and had not had a chance to try this feature so when I saw this question on stackoverflow I thought it would be a good...
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