New EF CTP! ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP is Available

    Tuesday, July 03 2007 - All

    The ADO.NET team has released the latest bits for the ADO.NET Entity Framework with the June 2007 CTP. There are samples on CodePlex, too. It claims many changes and support for a lot of new features ... I grabbed this partial list from their post:

    • Changes in: 
      • Object Services
      • Query
      • Entity Client
      • the Entity Data Model Wizard in Visual Studio 
      • no more default constructors in code-generated classes
      • improvements to stored procedure support
    • New Features:
      • IPOCO
      • detaching from long-running ObjectContext instances
      • multiple entity sets per type
      • support for referential integrity constraints
      • span support
      • transactions
      • serialization

    Notice the IPOCO support. This is something that is a step in the right direction for getting the entities in the EDM to move towards full POCO. I am downloading the bits now and can't wait to unwrap the candy!

     

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    #1 FransBouma on 7.03.2007 at 7:58 AM

    I have no idea what IPOCO means, do you? :) POCO means Plain Old CLR objects, IPOCO then means something like that with a word in front of it starting with an I ? ;) 'Impossible'? Imaginable?

    INNOVATIVE! ;)



    #2 http:// on 7.03.2007 at 12:52 PM

    Interfaces on Plain Old CLR Objects



    #3 John Papa on 7.03.2007 at 1:50 PM

    Frans, some funny possibilities:

    - Imaginary POCO

    - Incredible POCO

    - Idunno POCO

    - iPOCO (a new iPhone competitor)



    #4 John Papa on 7.03.2007 at 1:51 PM

    In case my humor is lost on anyone ... yes, Xor is right. Its Interfaces for POCO. Meaning that there is an interface that the POCO entity would implement.



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