PDC 09 – Entity Framework 4
First time that I can say – there are MANY people that use EF4. How do I know? because the session had the room filled with people, with people waiting outside !
EF 4 is great. It solved many of the problems of EF3.5 and made the technology more mature and useful.
What annoyed me in the lecture is that it showed all the features of EF4 that people already know of (well, I know of). The title was misleading because I thought they will talk about new features that don't exist currently.
Here is the list of features, and links to blog posts regarding them:
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One new think that was introduced was the “Quadrant” project – cool graphical tool that allows editing SQL Server data.
I’m not saying the session wasn’t good, for people that are unfamiliar with EF4, the session was great and it covered a lot of new features. For someone like me that is familiar with EF4 since the first beta, the session didn’t add much.
Don’t forget the Entity Framework session and tutorial on the SDP – we’ll have a session about Entity Framework 4 (for those who are unfamiliar) and will have a whole day of EF & ORM tutorials with the best EF guys in Sela (Erez Harari, Gil Fink, Bernie Almosni and myself).