The Entity Framework has advanced significantly over the last few years. A little over a year ago we released EF 4.1 , which introduced the new DbContext API and EF "Code First" support. Earlier this year we delivered EF 4.3 , which provides Code First Migration support that enables developers to easily evolve database schema in a code optimized way. And we are now in the final stages of wrapping up the EF 5 release , which adds enum support, spatial data types, table-valued function support and some significant performance and Visual Studio Tooling improvements. One of the things the team has done throughout the EF4 and EF5 development cycles has been to involve the community early as we make design decisions and solicit as much...(read more) ...
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