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| From: | Craig Tucker |
| To: | Rick Strahl |
Matt and I are "Entity Framework Diving" again and have a question regarding WWW & Ajax Toolkit.
Our Database(s) are already defined. We have studied "EfCodeFirst" and "LinqToSql" and are very interested in "EntityFramework"; however, "EntityFramework" is still labeled (experimental). What is left on this one to take it off the experimental list and use extensively as our "go to" .net business object wrapper?
Thanks, Craig & Matt
You have that code in West Wind Ajax and Web Toolkit. :-)
I'll be looking at this when I get back from India. I have a new project I can try EF out on and will be updating that code base. The big problem is that a lot of the stuff is so much less configurable than L2Sql was which makes it so much less friendly to high level abstraction...
+++ Rick ---
Are you anywhere close to an EF wrapper? I've been looking around for EF 4 Repository packages, and there are a few that keep popping up on Google, but none that I'd trust as much as something from you!
EF is in CTP5 righ now. Surely they must be getting close to something stable.
Come, on, give us some good news...
Haven't given it much thought recently. It'll need some time to test once .NET 4.0 releases next week...
+++ Rick ---
Well, that good news... But, you mean even this late in the game, with the VS2010 and .Net 4 launch next week, that they are still playing with the EF bits? I would have thought that stuff was locked down by now.
Anyway, I'll begin my EF work when you release this... So far, I've not even touched it, but it is on my list of things to learn, especially now that I know about your wrapper.
How will you release it? Like a White Paper kind of thing? Or as part of your Toolkit for ASP.Net, or maybe even a separate package?
Hey Rick - I really love the simple Business Object Wrapper for LinqToSql that you wrote. It is awesome, and makes CRUD data access a piece of cake.
I wanted to ask if you have any plans to create a similar version of this Entity Framework?
Or, do you know of a simple, light weight version that someone else has already created that I can experiment with?
I have one that provides roughly the same functionality, but I haven't put it out yet because there are still changes in EF coming that will affect it. Once VS 2010/.NET 4 ships I'll see about providing the EF layer as well...
+++ Rick ---