New Post: Build error on UnitTest.dll
This "Strong name signature could not be verified" indicates that strong name has not been turned off for this assembly. Did you run the SkipStrongName util...
View ArticleNew Post: Eager Loading (using Include) for abstract class
Hi randavidovitz,Thanks for your comments. You are correct in that there isn't a very good solution to this with EF at the moment. We have an item filed in CodePlex to track this...
View ArticleNew Post: ToList in nested select
Hi jarrettv,Thanks for bringing this up. It would certainly be useful to add support for this and I have filed an issue to track it:http://entityframework.codeplex.com/workitem/808Thanks, Arthur
View ArticleNew Post: programmatic access to the Code First conventions code?
I've been working on trying to improve the attribute-based EF reverse engineer code templates from Rowan and Saber Soleymani...
View ArticleNew Post: ToList in nested select
This is something I would want so much, and I think it's tightly coupled to this thread:http://entityframework.codeplex.com/discussions/406635 (which is also something I'd love to see)I'd even give it...
View ArticleNew Post: Performance issues
If you didn't want to simulate a web sever scenario where you have a new context per request, you could also move SaveChanges out of the loop. did this in a Seed method, that inserted a few thousand...
View ArticleNew Post: Are there any plans to better support DateTime in Linq to Entities?
Hi Pawel,I'm aware of DbFunctions, but out of the box support of some simple DateTime methods would just be more straight forward.Imagine a case where common business conditions like...
View ArticleNew Post: Performance issues
@mat1024 It is interesting that you say "only one at the end can be very slow". It is a common to use the EF context as a Unit of Work pattern. That is, you create a context instance, setup all your...
View ArticleNew Post: Are there any plans to better support DateTime in Linq to Entities?
Hi Mat,Yes, I understand that there are scenarios where this can be very useful. Unfortunately the work item you pointed to did not make it to the EF6 release. As I hinted above we take contributions...
View ArticleNew Post: Support SQL Server HierarchyId data type
Hi zgabi,We have spent some time on the EF team brainstorming what we think the best approach is for tackling hierarchy ID and other related features. The conclusions from these discussions are as...
View ArticleNew Post: Performance issues
@ajcvickers: Please have a look at the following answers at stackoverflow:http://stackoverflow.com/a/1931024http://stackoverflow.com/a/5942176SaveChanges every n iterations and using a new context...
View ArticleNew Post: Single model in the same database multiple times
I've been reading up on the specs for adding Migrations Multi-tenancy in EF6 and I would like to propose to extend this support for having multiple identical models in the same database. We are...
View ArticleNew Post: which commit matches the EF 5.0.0.0 release?
When I started looking at the DbModelBuilder for how the conventions were surfaced, I realized that there had been some (good!) changes in the public API since 5.0.0.0 shipped.I don't see any branches...
View ArticleNew Post: Discover by debug: EF Code First Model Building
Hi there, can you point me out where I can find functional/unit test in charge to test conventions and configurations in the code base?Thank you
View ArticleNew Post: which commit matches the EF 5.0.0.0 release?
jmanning,The move to git happened after work started on EF6 so there is no tag or anything similar for EF5. Also, EF5 was not developed under an open source license and unfortunately the source for EF5...
View ArticleNew Post: Discover by debug: EF Code First Model Building
Unit tests: test\EntityFramework\UnitTests\ModelConfiguration\Conventions test\EntityFramework\UnitTests\ModelConfiguration\ConfigurationFunctional tests:...
View ArticleNew Post: Single model in the same database multiple times
Hi,The name of 'Multi-Tenant Migrations' has caused some confusion - we've actually recently renamed the new feature to 'Multiple Contexts per Database' to help make it clearer what scenario we are...
View ArticleNew Post: ModelConfiguration Extensibility
Hi Guys, I had intended to extend ManyToManyAssociationMappingConfiguration to include a ValueConditionConfiguration.I noticed however that while the classes are not sealed they are not designed for...
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