ADO.

NET Entity Framework

Mike Taulty Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd Mike.Taulty@microsoft.com http://www.mtaulty.com

ADO.NET Entity Framework

Extension to the ADO.NET provider model Functionality
Program against an abstracted model of your store schema Use traditional ADO.NET API or ORM/LINQ

Slated to ship mid 2008

Currently at Beta 3, Tooling at CTP 2 Downloadable in ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Quick Demo to Defer Boredom

Entity Framework Architecture

V3.0

.NET Entity Provider (Entity SQL) Programming Model

Entity

Conceptual Model LINQ Reader

relationship

Entity

Connection Command

Object Relational Mapping

Mapping (MSL)
V2.0

.NET Data Provider

Reader Adapter Connection Command

Store

Tools, SSDL, MSL, CSDL

Programming with Entity SQL

The EntityClient provides the usual
Connection, Command, DataReader

There is no EntityDataAdapter
V1.0 the model is read-only

Entity SQL has some additional constructs to expose the underlying conceptual model e.g.;
ANYELEMENT CREATEREF DEREF IS OF KEY MULTISET NAVIGATE OFTYPE

OVERLAPS

REF

ROW

SELECT

SET

TREAT

USING

Programming with Entity Client

Mapping Examples ( 1 Splitting )

Store
Good Customers

Mapping
Type=G

Entities

ID
FirstName LastName First Last

Customers CustomerId

Bad Customers
ID ForeName Surname Type=B

Type

Mapping Examples ( 2 TPH )

Store
Customers
ID FirstName LastName

Mapping

Entities
Customer CustomerId
First Last

IsPremium
Overdraft AccountManager

PremiumCustomer Overdraft AccountManager

* Framework also supports TPT

Mapping Examples ( 3 View + SPs )

Store
ClientView1
select c.id, c.name from customers c where c.country = UK

Mapping

Entities

UkCustomer CustomerId Name

p_DeleteUkCustomer p_UpdateUkCustomer
p_InsertUkCustomer

Querying with Entity SQL

Programming with LINQ to Entities

New Data Access ORM API implemented in assembly
System.Data.Entity.dll System.Data.Entity.Design.dll

Many Namespaces
System.Data.Entity System.Data.Objects and many more...

ORM API can be used with or without LINQ

Key Classes
provider
Connection Metadata CSDL State Management CRUD MSL SSDL

LINQ to Entities Possible Topics

Change Tracking
Stored Concurrency Transactions (i)POCO

Procs

Inheritance

Customising Code-Gen
Compiled Queries

Metadata

N-Tier

LINQ to Entities

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