I don’t know if you all care or even know but the first version of Entity Framework got some enthusiastic feedback from (unwilling?) parts of the .NET community!
In plain English: EF was bashed by among others the ALT.NET movement due to couple of unforgiving initial problems like not supporting model first and not supporting POCO.
Today I had the joy to witness a very diplomatic and talented Tim Mallalieu navigate the feedback given and showing how to make the EF V2 a lot better for different groups of users.
The most important (?) user; the Agilist was first out: EF supports full POCO and persistence ignorance. Your code is just plain code completely without knowledge of where and how it is persisted. Full persistence ignorance.
The second user; the Model Driven developer: You may now create database from model and the other way around. Transparently.
Cheers,
M.
posted @ Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:42 AM