Programming Entity Framework

• MSDN Data Access and Storage Developer Center
• MSDN Library: Entity Framework Documentation
   
• MS ADO.NET Team Blog
• MS Data Access Team Blog
• Entity Framework FAQ by Danny Simmons
   
• MSDN Entity Framework Forums
   
• Code Gallery Home Page for Entity Framework Team
  (ADO.NET Entity Framework projects, samples, toolkits, extensions and Learning Tools created by Entity Framework Team)
   
• CodePlex EFContrib
   A project for contributing EF Source Code
   
• Sample Databases from Microsoft 
   
• "How Do I" Videos from E.F. Team
   
• 101 Visual Basic LINQ Samples (on MSDN)
• 101 C# LINQ Samples (on MSDN)
   
• My Entity Framework Articles
  Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework CoDe Magazine Nov/Dec 2007 
  Data Access Options in Visual Studio 2008 CoDe Magazine Sept/Oct 2008 
  ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview SDN Magazine May 2009
  8 Entity Framework Gotchas CoDe Magazine July/August 2009 
   
• DotNetRocks Audio and TV Shows related to Entity Framework
  Daniel Simmons on ADO.NET Entity Framework (April 2007)
  Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework (Feb 2008)
  Daniel Simmons on Entity Framework v1! (July 2008)
  DNRTV: Dan Simmons on The Entity Framework Part 2 (7/28/2008)
  DNRTV: Dan Simmons on The Entity Framework Part 1 (7/14/2008)
   
• Information about EF Version 2 EF4 (EF in VS2010 & .NET 4.0)
  EF Team's Entity Framework Design Blog
  Entity Framework Futures Session at PDC 2008: Powerpoint, Video
  Community's Version 2 Wish List on MSDN Forums (add your own wish!)
  NEW! EF4 Beta MSDN Forums
  NEW! EF4 Beta MSDN Documentation

Various blogs by ADO.NET/EF Team Members and Evangelists at Microsoft
Samir Bajaj (Developer on Data Programmability team)
Pablo Castro (Technical Lead)
Sushil Chordia (ADO.NET Team)
Andrew Conrad (Astoria Team)
Elisa Flasko (Community Program Manager for Data Programmability)
Mike Flasko (ADO.NET Data Services Program Manager)
Damien Guard (LINQ to SQL Team)
Alex James (Entity Framework Metadata Program Manager)
Ju-Yi Kuo (Entity Framework Developer)
Jaroslaw Kowalski (Entity Framework Test Engineer)
Craig Lee (EF Team)
Marcelo Lopez Ruiz (Astoria Team)
Colin Meek (Entity Framework Team)
Faisal Mohamood (LINQ to SQL and Object Services Program Manager)
Zlatko Michailov (former Entity SQL Program Manager)
Shyam Pather (Entity Framework Team)
David Sceppa (ADO.NET Program Manager)
Angel Saenz-Badillos (ADO.NET Team)
Danny Simmons (Entity Framework Team)
Mike Taulty (Developer Evangelist)
Erick Thompson (ADO.NET LINQ, Dataset, etc.)
Diego Vega (Entity Framework APIs)

Released Database Providers for Entity Framework

SQL Server
 Entity Framework functionality is built into the ADO.NET SqlClient provider that ships with .NET. (Released August 11, 2008)

SQLLite (Phoenix Software)
 EF has been added into their System.Data.SQLLite API. Released August 11, 2008

Oracle
3rd Party:
  Data Direct DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET Entity Framework provider for Oracle (August 15, 2009)
  Devart:      Oracle: OraDirect .NET      (August 20, 2008)

MySQL
 MySQL Connector/NET 6 
 3rd Party:
    Devart  MyDirect .NET    

SQLAnywhere
 SQL Anywhere (Sybase) EF has been added to the SQL Anywhere 11 release  (August 5, 2008)

PostgreSQL
 PostgreSQL (Npgsql) EF support added into Version 2 (October 6, 2008)
 3rd Party:
   DevArt:  PostgreSQLDirect.NET (August 20, 2008)

IBM Databases
 IBM DB2, Informix and UniVerse (Nov 28, 2008)

Firebird
 Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider v 2.5  (May 22, 2009)

Sybase
 Sybase Advantage 9.1 (June 2009)

Synerge/DE
 Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET  (June 2009)