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Entity Framework in a SOA environment
I received a mission to explore entity framework as a DAL for a new project, this project is intended to be N-Tier SOA application. Here are some of my findings: The partial classes which are created by entity framework already contain DataContract and DataMember attributes and are “ready to use” in WCF. Entity framework has a change tracking mechanism, the main problem with this mechanism is that once the object was serialized (before transferred in a service) it gets the state “detached” and from...