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Programming Entity Framework, 2nd Edition
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Programming Entity Framework, 2nd Edition

by Julia Lerman
August 2010
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
920 pages
28h 49m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Author Note for Third Printing, August 2011

In this new age of the e-book, I’m happy to see Programming Entity Framework, Second Edition, enter its third printing. There have been some changes to Entity Framework since this edition was first published in August 2011 which you should be aware of. As this is only a reprint, not a new edition, I’m unable to incorporate the updates into this book, but am able to provide this short overview for you.

Entity Framework 4.1 (Code First and DbContext) Has Released

Chapter 25 briefly discusses the Entity Framework Feature Community Technical Preview (CTP) which included the Code First modeling strategy and DbContext API. Code First and the DbContext API were wrapped into what is now known as Entity Framework 4.1 and were released in April 2011. You can learn much about using Code First and the other EF 4.1 features at http://msdn.com/data/ef. Watch my book blog, learnentityframework.com, for news about some upcoming projects I’m working on around Entity Framework 4.1.

In May 2011, Microsoft gave us a preview of updates to the EDM Designer called the EF Power Tools CTP1. The most interesting designer feature in this CTP allows developers to reverse engineer an existing database into Code First style classes and a DbContext. Some additional designer features were included as well. See the team blog post, EF Power Tools CTP1 Released, at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/05/18/ef-power-tools-ctp1-released.aspx for more information.

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