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LINQ to Entities Beta 2 and CTP of Entity Framework Tools

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So far for me LINQ to SQL has been perfectly adequate and has just worked without any intervention needed.However, if you want to get more control than LINQ to SQL gives you then you might want to take a look at LINQ to Entities.

I've yet to delve into it in too much detail, but among other things

  • it will work with DBs other than SQL Server
  • it will come after VS 2008
  • if your DB has unstructured tables then you can define multiple types against that table and they will get mapped accordingly, so it's great if you want a more intelligent mapping

Here's a good place to start to learn more.

If you want to start using it you'll need to download the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2 and the ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools August 07 CTP which contains a preview of the ADO.NET Entity Designer for use with VS 2008 beta 2.

 

Cross posted from ronan's blog