Scott Guthrie announces that the data team released the CTP5 build of the new Entity Framework Code-First library.
Source: ScottGu's Blog
EF Code-First enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to:
- Develop without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file
- Define model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required
- Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without explicitly configuring anything
- Optionally override the convention-based persistence and use a fluent code API to fully customize the persistence mapping