I moved a small EF 4.3 solution to EF5 (and to .NET 4.5) so I can add the new enum support to it. Then I started the process all over again and captured it as a screencast. Pluralsight is hosting it on their blog here: Video: Entity Framework 5 New Features Sneak Peek . It’s 14 minutes long. I...

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post showing how EF5 uses DbLocal as its default database along with a screenshot of the configuration info that EF5 puts into your config (web.config or app.config) of the project that you’ve installed EF5 into. Since then, EF5 Beta 2 was released and the details have...

EF 4.x: EF 4.1+ has a DataAnnotations namespace for the new EF related annotations. Most of them are related to database schema. EF 5 Not even a DataAnnotations namespace in here. That’s because the annotations got incorporated into .NET 4.5.   .NET 4.5 A new namespace within System.ComponentModel...

What did I do? I wasted hours and hours so that I can share this lesson with you. The bottom line is that I’m kindofa dope sometimes. I had an EF 4.3 project that I moved onto a new machine with VS11 Beta. I wanted to see the new enum support in action. So, I installed the new EF 5 by opening up...

In my recent Code First Migrations course on Pluralsight.com, I showed how you can get detailed information about the parameters of update-database. These can also be used if you want to execute the migrations from the command line using the counterpart migrate.exe command rather than from within Visual...

Visual Studio 11 brings a new development database -- SQL Server Local Database. Bye bye SQL Server Express dependency. I typically let Code First run with it’s default database of choice – up to now that’s been SQL Server Express -- when I’m creating simple samples where  I don’t care too much...

Entity Framework is evolving rapidly which is why they are releasing via NuGet rather than being strapped to the .NET release cycle. (You can read more about the how’s and why’s of EF’s release cycle here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/diego/archive/2012/01/15/why-entity-framework-vnext-will-be-ef5-and-nothing...

In a recent blog post comment, someone asked “can you please tell them [EF Dev Team] some developers would like to use the Power Shell command script and not PM console to update database.” If you look inside the package folder for Entity Framework 4.3 (or 4.3.1 or whatever is the current version in...

Modified the original title of this post because it was derived from a misquote. Scott Hanselman clarifies with: The quote (what I said was) "EF is joining our team under ScottGu" and "EF is now the M in MVC". Scott Guthrie chimes in with “Yes - now part of my team (which includes...

My newest course is live on Pluralsight.com . This one is about using the new data migrations feature of Entity Framework Code First. These were first introduced with EF 4.3. Migrations lets you update your database schema when your model changes rather than having code first completely drop and recreate...