I’m pretty excited about the EF "Code-First”
functionality and think it 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 particular I like it because it helps keep code really clean,
maintainable, and allows you to do a lot concisely. Hopefully these last
three blog posts about it provides a glimpse of some of the possibilities it
provides – both for new and existing databases.
You can download the 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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