EF Code First Change Tracking

Change tracking is a central concept for every Object-Relational Mapper, including Entity Framework. When doing updates to objects the normal work flow with Entity Framework has three steps. Retrieve data from the database. Update some properties on some objects. Save the updates to the database. In the third step Entity Framework has to find out… Continue reading EF Code First Change Tracking

Using Entity Framework to Create a Database

It’s been a few years since I worked with Entity Framework and there have been substantial improvements. Still I have been missing a life cycle view on the database, where the evolution of a database schema during development and maintenance is fully supported. The latest Entity Framework 4.3 release contains EF Migrations which claims to… Continue reading Using Entity Framework to Create a Database