I have some articles to write on the Entity Framework and LINQ to ADO.NET, so I will be busy in the depths of EF for a while. I have been spending the past few days immersing myself in the Orcas March CTP. While there are features I am still longing for (such as the EDM Designer) this is the most EF

Due to the lack of a designer and because I am very curious, I’ve been digging through the XML for the CSDL, MSL and a little bit into the SSDL schemas for the Entity Framework’s Entity Data Model. Even if you are waiting for the Designer to be released (date TBD) it cannot hurt to get familiar with

As I am sure you have read by now, the Entity Framework is a huge leap forward in the next iteration of ADO.NET in Orcas.  Currently the implementation has a conceptual layer represented by a CSDL file. This CSDL file contains the XML that represents conceptual model (the objects). The conceptual la

As I noted earlier [http://codebetter.com/blogs/john.papa/archive/2007/06/17/ado-net-entity-framework-overview.aspx] , my latest article in MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/07/DataPoints/] was just posted a few days ago. If you visited it early on you might have missed the

<P class=MsoNormal style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”><FONT face=Calibri size=3>My </FONT><FONT face=Calibri size=3>April 2007 Data Points column</FONT> [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/04/DataPoints/default.aspx]<FONT face=Calibri size=3> has been posted to