Interesting reading about Entity Framework 4.0
Entity Framework has suffered great changes and in order to know more about them I recommend the following reading:
POCO (Plain Old CLR Object or Persistence ) in the Entity Framework 4.0
- Sneak Preview: Persistence Ignorance and POCO in Entity Framework 4.0
- POCO in the Entity Framework:
“Why is POCO important in Entity Framework? Is important because now we have the ability to really separate the Storage Model from the Conceptual Model, and being the Conceptual Model our normal CLR Objects, that was not possible in previous versions of Entity Framework. This is a huge breakthrough for this 4.0 version. Is not perfect, and in this technologies it never is but it’s very interesting”
- Part 1 - The Experience (Explains how to make this two parts of the POCO experience with Entity Framework 4.0, from making the Model to the designing of the POCO entities, as well as answering some interesting questions)
- Part 2 – Complex Types, Deferred Loading and Explicit Loading (Goes further in the POCO entities and make changes shows how to implement Complex Types as well as configuring the Loading by using Deferred/Lazy Loading or Explicit Loading)
- Part 3 – Change Tracking with POCO (Explains furthermore how the Change Tracking, that is so important in Entity Framework, works in POCO entities and how can it be configured by using Metadata)
- Using Repository and Unit of Work patterns with Entity Framework 4.0 (Explains how to implement common patterns like Repository and Unit of Work using Entity Framework 4.0)
- Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 (Announcement of the Entity Framework CTP Features for .NET 4.0 Beta 1)
- Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for Entity Framework (Explains the scenarios on where to use the Self Tracking Entities)
- Feature CTP Walkthrough: POCO Templates for Entity Framework (Explains how to use POCO Templates, that is a kind of T4 Template in order to generate POCO entities)
- Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (Explains how to Entity Framework without any model like EDMX, just code)
I hope you enjoy the reading.