This week’s CTP4 release of the “EF Code-First”
functionality provides a pretty nice code-centric way to work with data.
It brings with it a lot of productivity, as well as a lot of power. In
today’s tutorial I focused mostly on some of the new productivity enhancements
provided with the CTP4 release. There are many more scenarios we could
drill into including its Fluent API for enabling custom persistence mapping
rules, its improved testability support, and other more advanced capabilities.
You can download this week’s CTP4 release of EF Code-First here. To learn even more about “EF Code-First” check
out these blog posts by the ADO.NET team:
EF CTP4 Announcement Blog Post
EF CTP4 Productivity Enhancements Blog Post
EF CTP4 Code First Walkthrough Blog Post
DataAnnotations and Code First
Default conventions with Code First
Scott Hanselman’s Walkthrough Post about CTP4
Hope this helps,
Scott
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