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Agenda Developer workflows Entity Framework 5 Demos Entity Framework 6

EF developer workflows Designer centric Code centric New database Model first Create .edmx model in designer Generate database from .edmx Classes auto-generated from .edmx Code first Define classes and mapping in code Database auto-created at runtime Existing database Database first Reverse engineer .edmx model Classes auto-generated from .edmx Code first Define classes and mapping in code (Reverse engineer tools available)

Entity Framework 5 (EF5) EntityFramework NuGet Package Included in Visual Studio 2012 Works with Visual Studio 2010 Works with .NET 4.0 and 4.5 Most new features require .NET 4.5

What’s new in EF5 EF designer and code first EF designer only Enum support Spatial data types Performance improvements EF designer only Table-valued Functions (TVFs) Multiple diagrams and coloring DbContext code generation

Park Finder demo

Search Text Bing Maps API Coordinates ParkFinder Web API List<Park> Entity Framework LocalDb Map GridView demo

EF developer workflows Designer centric Code centric New database Model first Create .edmx model in designer Generate database from .edmx Classes auto-generated from .edmx Code first Define classes and mapping in code Database auto-created at runtime Existing database Database first Reverse engineer .edmx model Classes auto-generated from .edmx Code first Define classes and mapping in code (Reverse engineer tools available)

Entity Framework 6 (EF6) Open source Targeting mid-2013 RTM Accepting contributions Code base has Apache 2.0 License Releases have same license, branding, quality, support, etc. as EF5 Targeting mid-2013 RTM Alpha 1 available today

EF6 Features Async query and save Dependency injection pattern Code first custom conventions Enums, spatial, etc. on .NET 4.0 Connection resiliency (retry) Tooling consolidation Code first stored procedure support

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Resources Follow us on Twitter @WindowsAzure Get Started: www.windowsazure.com/build Please submit session evals on the Build Windows 8 App or at http://aka.ms/BuildSessions