EF 4 – Implementing POCO Objects

The EF team has released the POCO template for use with VSTS 2010 Beta 2.  I thought I might examine POCO support in the new version of the Entity Framework without taking advantage of the template first, then get into the template in a later post.  This post will provide a simple end-to-end sample of implementing POCO objects in EF4 (Beta 2).

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Is Lazy Loading in EF 4 Evil or the Second Coming?

(As you probably know) The Entity Framework provides you with various options for loading related entities.  In Entity Framework 4, you will have the choice to implement eager loading, explicit loading and now… lazy loading.  Lazy loading was not available in version 1.  A quick search on ‘Lazy Loading’ will yield opinions from 2 very [...]

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Finding a Nursery School

After our first day of house searching with Claire, it was time to look for a nursery school for Jack.  We again had a representative from our relocation company to help us with this.  For the afternoon, we had meetings set up with 2 schools.  Now, right before Claire dropped us off after our house [...]

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Taking the Housing Trip – Finally

We finally got the Visa thing squared away and were finally able to take our housing trip.  The trip was for 4 days in London.  In that time, we were supposed to find a home for us to rent, find our temporary housing and identify a school for our son.  Again, we had the expertise [...]

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