Regardless of what version of Entity Framework (EF) you're using, if you're doing code-first development, you should be looking at Microsoft's Entity Framework Power Tools, even if it is still in beta ...

The latest version of the technology works fine with the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Here's some of what's new (along with how to move your applications to EF6). Entity ...

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Looking to assist developers in building business applications, Microsoft published a second beta version of ADO.Net Entity Framework this week and a community technology preview of tools to work with ...

I was hesitant to add any preview plug-ins or apply any patches to Visual Studio 2008 until I’d finished my review, but now that it’s done I’ve gone a little wild. I have installed the ASP.NET 3.5 ...

Microsoft released Entity Framework Beta 3 on Dec. 6, and the company also officially announced the third-party database vendors and ADO.NET 2.0 data providers that have agreed to support the ...

On Monday, Microsoft released Beta 2 of the Entity Framework and a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Entity Framework Tools. An addition to the .NET Framework's ADO.NET, the Entity Framework ...