The EF 4 code-first demo has been updated to reference the EF4 Feature CTP3 dll at its default location. To run the demo, you have to make sure that the you have it installed. Download the EF 4 Feature CTP3 at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=af18e652-9ea7-478b-8b41-8424b94e3f58&displayLang=en. Although the demo was originally developed with VS 2010 Beta 2 everything works [...]
Categories: O/R mapping
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Demo, Entity Framework
Edited 2009-11-26: removed EF4 Feature CTP from demo package and added some code examples. So, Entity Framework 1.0 pretty much sucks (compared to alternatives), but I’m glad to see that things have improved a lot in version 4.0 (we’ll call that EF4 from now). To see how the improvements work out, I did a quick [...]
Categories: O/R mapping
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Castle, Entity Framework
About a year ago, a few people (called by some as ‘The NHibernate Mafia’) wrote a vote of no confidence against the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF), mainly because a big influential company like Microsoft was releasing an inferior tool set. See the text of the petition for the detailed reasoning. My initial thoughts were [...]
Categories: O/R mapping
Tagged: Entity Framework, Microsoft, NHibernate