What's New in Entity Framework 5.0?  11 Shares Google+ 3 Twitter
2 LinkedIn 0 Facebook 6 Buffer 0 11 Shares ×  In this blog post,
I will be talking about the new 5.0 release of Entity Framework.
I hope you find it informative and enjoyable.  Agenda (Click to
jump)  Performance optimizations Enum support Spatial data types
Code first improvements DbContext generation Multiple diagrams
per model Table-valued functions Batch import of stored
procedures  Performance Optimizations  For years, I have been
working with various platforms and languages, utilizing
different data access technologies – from JDBC to ADO.NET and
Entity Framework. Back in the days when I was a Java developer
working with Hibernate, writing my own XML mapping configuration
(no Generate from Database option), there is one question that
is still valid today. What's the catch? We have automatic
configuration, generation, and mapping. We have LINQ to Entities
doing all the work for us including generating the SQL and
allowing us to use the build