New Post: Batching & Futures Support
Hi folks, First off, great news on the open sourcing of Entity Framework! Congratulations to the team for making this monumental step. Now, thought I'd be first to ask about a feature for the EF 6...
View ArticleNew Post: Thanks in advance
I just wanted to thank you guys for doing this. I hope this results in great new features contributed by the community and, of course, a shorter release cycle. ;)
View ArticleNew Post: Batching & Futures Support
I would also be really keen to have this batch style update/delete support added to the framework. However I think performance is the leading driver for adding this type of query. I have done some...
View ArticleNew Post: Query generation in batch insert scenarios
I have noticed that EF produces a large number of discrete insert statements when SaveChanges is called with a large number of new rows. It would be sensible here if instead of using individual INSERT...
View ArticleNew Post: Query generation in batch insert scenarios
Hey, This is definitely something we want to add to the product, we've even done some prototyping in the past around this. The relevant feature on the backlog is here -...
View ArticleNew Post: __MigrationHistory Changes
Currently the migration history table is hardcoded to 'dbo.__MigrationHistory', which causes incompatibilities with some providers. DB2 for instance requires quotes be put around the name when...
View ArticleNew Post: __MigrationHistory Changes
Hi Chris, Thanks again for considering contributing to EF! Firstly, here are some of the things we are doing or planning on doing for EF6: 1) Providing a way to change the default schema for a Code...
View ArticleNew Post: __MigrationHistory Changes
I'm using the IBM.Data.DB2 (v9.7) provider to connect to a DB2 database, and it works fine with Model & Code first, however it does not have support for Migrations. I started to implement my own...
View ArticleNew Post: A ValidateDatabase DB Initalizer Strategy
I don't understand which initializer you refer to as the default - is it the CreateDatabaseIfNotExists or the MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion? Anyways my intention with the ValidateDatabase initializer...
View ArticleNew Post: A ValidateDatabase DB Initalizer Strategy
Hi Anders, We discussed this today and it is something that we would potentially take as a contribution. Take a look at the code and tests for CreateDatabaseIfNotExists to make sure it handles things...
View ArticleNew Post: Unified async query execution
Thanks for the feedback! By the way, you may be interested in the design overview for async that we posted today:...
View ArticleNew Post: ObjectContext.DetectChanges and the SavingChanges event
As has been pointed out before and can be seen thanks to the opensourcing of EF, ObjectContext calls DetectChanges AFTER raising the SavingChanges event. The reasons for this are explained in this...
View ArticleNew Post: Silverlight EF source code
Will the Silverlight EF source code be published anytime soon? I could really use it to recompile against the .NET 4.0 runtime for unit testing.
View ArticleNew Post: ObjectContext.DetectChanges and the SavingChanges event
Hello Koen, We actually called DetectChanges twice at one point, but later removed one of the calls because DetectChanges is a relatively expensive call. But it's easy and recommended to call...
View ArticleNew Post: websocket ".Net ASP.NET nothing"
Hey. Question WebSocket4Net this platform, the server I can host an application; .Net ASP.NET nothing. I do not want to rewrite my programs. Net, I just want to see if I keep it on the server and...
View ArticleNew Post: Query generation in batch insert scenarios
Hello, guys! Good work! Just my 5 cents: what might also be interesting is the possibility to have different id generation strategies instead of server-generated ones. I'm thinking of NHibernate's...
View ArticleNew Post: Query generation in batch insert scenarios
Even created a feature suggestion a while ago: http://data.uservoice.com/forums/72025-entity-framework-feature-suggestions/suggestions/1796337-extensible-id-generation
View ArticleNew Post: Bulk (i.e. set-based) operations
There is an open source project that implements something along those lines: http://efe.codeplex.com/ Samples: this.Container.Devices.Update(o => new Device() { LastOrderRequest = DateTime.Now,...
View ArticleNew Post: Resource based Pre-Generated Views
A while back we started to run into problems with our large model and Pre-Generated views. Doing some searching we found this:...
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