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What’s in Entity Framework June 2011 CTP?
The Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP introduces both new runtime and design-time features. Here are some of the new runtime features:
- The Enum data-type is now available in the Entity Framework. You can use either the Entity Designer within Visual Studio to model entities that have Enum properties, or use the Code First workflow to define entities that have Enum objects as properties. You can use your Enum property just like any other scalar property, such as in LINQ queries and updates.
- Two new spatial data-types for Geography and Geometry are now natively supported by the Entity Framework. You can use these types and methods on these types as part of LINQ queries, for example to find the distance between two locations as part of a query.
- You can now add table-valued functions to your entity data model. A table-valued function is similar to a stored procedure, but the result of executing the table-valued function is composable, meaning you can use it as part of a LINQ query.
- Stored procedures can now have multiple result sets in your entity data model.
- The Entity Framework June 2011 CTP includes several SQL generation improvements, especially around optimizing queries over models with table-per-type (TPT) inheritance.
- LINQ queries are now automatically compiled and cached to improve query performance. In previous releases of the Entity Framework, you could use the CompiledQuery class to compile a LINQ query explicitly but in this CTP this happens automatically for LINQ queries.
There are several new features for the Entity Framework Designer within Visual Studio:
- The Entity Designer now supports creation of Enums, spatial data-types and table-value functions from the designer surface.
- You can now create multiple diagrams for each entity data model. Each diagram can contain entities and relationships to make visualizing your model easier. You can switch between diagrams using the Model Browser and include related entities on each diagram as an optional command.
- The StoreGeneratedPattern for key columns can now be set on an entity Properties window and this value will propagate from your entity model down to the store definition.
- Diagram information is now stored in a separate file from the edmx or entity code files.
- When you import stored procedures using the Entity Model Wizard, you can now batch import your stored procedures as function imports. The result shape of each stored procedure will automatically become a new complex type in your entity model. This makes getting started with stored procedures very easy.
- The Entity Designer surface now supports selection driven highlighting and entity shape coloring.