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EF should adopt the WAQS framework I was speaking with Matthieu MEZIL about his WAQS framework, it is a layer of abstraction over the Entity Framework which I think you should check out. Matthieu is working on it on his free time (currently as an open source) and it is amazing to see what he was able to achieve. this framework is already been in used by some of real word company and it is improving over time (today Matthieu is working on a new version of it). as I see it, Microsoft EF team should...
EF 6: Async this post is the first in a series about what's new in EF 6 . great improvements are about to come with Entity Framework 6 . it is a major release and the first one since EF become an open source. each post in the series will be dedicate to a single feature. this post will focus on a new EF a-sync features. the first question that should be asked is, why do we need parallel data access ? moreover why do we need a dedicate parallel data access API , rather then using the TPL Task.Run...
Entity Framework - Pro and Con Consulting as part of a consultant group can lead to better consulting. Sela Israel consultant group is around 40 consultants many of them are speakers in local and international conference. It happens that one of our customers was having some issues around the usage of Entity Framework. even those I was thinking that I'm having most of the answer for that customer I decided to use our internal channel to query what are my colleagues opinions about those issues...
Bring Bulk insert into the ORM era modern application increasingly drifting toward Object Relational Mapping ( ORM ). but ORMs does not designed for bulk Insert operations, there were a few community solution, including this one, which deal with the issue, those solution are using the old ugly DataTable , which means ugly mapping from DTO to DataTable ( and potential memory leak if the DataTable does not disposed ). this post will suggest alternative solution which will use relative small...
The hidden assumption of EF 4 self-tracking entity recently I was diving into the Entity Framework self-tracking entity T4 and its generated code. doing so I was finding some interesting assumptions made about the entity behaviors. this post will illuminate some of those assumptions. Background EF self tracking entity is one of the major enhancement of EF 4.0 , it is a disconnected model ( similar to the old DataSet ) which enable tracking the entity state ( Added, Modified, Deleted and Unchanged...