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...
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...