Entity Framework 4.1: Complex Types (4)

This is part of a series of blog post about Entity Framework 4.1.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)
• Override conventions (2)
• Deep Fetch vs Lazy Load (3)

In this article, I’ll cover the complex types.

By default, EF 4.1 is mapping classes to table.  That is convenient but sometimes, we...

Release of Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service

Microsoft releases Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service today.

This component is the pending version of Windows Server App Fabric Caching Service (aka Velocity).

This service will be available as “promotion”, i.e. free of charge for a while.

Entity Framework 4.1 Release to Web (RTW)

Two weeks ago, Microsoft published a Release Candidate (RC)  of Entity Framework 4.1.  They promised to release the product within 4 weeks.

Well, they released it today!

So you can now use Entity Framework 4.1 which is a fully supported Microsoft Product.

The only change done from the RC is the default length of nvarchar from 128...

Entity Framework 4.1: Deep Fetch vs Lazy Load (3)

This is part of a series of blog post about Entity Framework 4.1.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)
• Override conventions (2)

In this article, I’ll cover the control of what is getting loaded in queries.

EF 4.1 is able to manage relations.  Now which relations get loaded when you do a query? ...

Entity Framework 4.1: Override conventions (2)

This is part of a series of blog post about Entity Framework 4.1.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)

In this article, I’ll cover how to over conventions.

We’ve seen that EF 4.1 Code-First infer the mapping between the model (classes) and the tables according to conventions.  When those conventions aren’t to our liking, we...