This post is now out of date. Be sure to check out EF 4.3 Beta 1. <transparency>I work for Microsoft</transparency> (just kidding… but I couldn’t leave the tag open) We recently released a very early preview of Code First Migrations and it’s been getting some mixed feedback, the negative feedback falls into three buckets: Stuff … Continue reading Magic Free Code First Migrations
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EF 4.1 Multi-Tenant with Code First
After a long break while we got EF 4.1 (Magic Unicorn Edition) polished up and shipped it felt like time to get some content up on here again. We’ve released some good introductory content for EF 4.1 on the MSDN Data Developer Center so I thought I’d dive into something a little more advanced. The … Continue reading EF 4.1 Multi-Tenant with Code First
EF CTP4 Tips & Tricks: Testing With Fake DbContext
This post is based on a pre-release version of Entity Framework. An updated post is available here. This is the sixth in a series of posts about the recently released Entity Framework Feature CTP4, now affectionately known as “EF Magic Unicorn Edition”. In this post we are going to take a look … Continue reading EF CTP4 Tips & Tricks: Testing With Fake DbContext
EF CTP4 Tips & Tricks: Querying Navigations Without Loading
This is the fifth in a series of posts about the recently released Entity Framework Feature CTP4, now affectionately known as “EF Magic Unicorn Edition”. Today we are going to take a look at how to query the contents of the navigation property of a loaded entity without loading the contents of that navigation into … Continue reading EF CTP4 Tips & Tricks: Querying Navigations Without Loading
EF CTP4 Tips & Tricks: Running Additional DDL
This is the fifth in a series of posts about the recently released Entity Framework Feature CTP4, now affectionately known as “EF Magic Unicorn Edition”. For this post I’m going to assume you have a basic knowledge of Code First using DbContext. One common question I hear is “how do I include additional indexes (or … Continue reading EF CTP4 Tips & Tricks: Running Additional DDL
EF CTP4 Tips & Tricks: Mapping to an Existing Database
This is the third in a series of posts about the recently released Entity Framework Feature CTP4 (AKA “EF Magic Unicorn Edition”). Most of the samples/demos of Code First so far have focused on creating a new database that is generated from a set of classes, however Code First also can be used in scenarios … Continue reading EF CTP4 Tips & Tricks: Mapping to an Existing Database
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