Comments on: EF4 Beta 2 Kicks It Up a Notch http://blog.tonysneed.com/2009/10/26/ef4-beta-2-kicks-it-up-a-notch/ A glimpse into the lives of Tony & Zuzana Sneed Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:30:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tony http://blog.tonysneed.com/2009/10/26/ef4-beta-2-kicks-it-up-a-notch/#comment-156 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:34:53 +0000 http://blog.tonysneed.com/2009/10/26/ef4-beta-2-kicks-it-up-a-notch/#comment-156 Hello Burton,

Thans for sharing your experience with EF v.1. You’re certainly not alone in your frustraions, but I would encourage you to give EF 4.0 a chance. In order to use ADO.NET in an SOA app, you’d probably end up writing your own mapper, which L2S and EF have already done for you. EF 4.0 removes all the obstacles you had to overcome with the prior version when writng n-tier apps. I’m about to write a post on self-tracking entities, but they make n-tier development with EF much easier. EF 4.0 will be released with .NET 4.0 in March 2010.

]]> By: Burton Roberts http://blog.tonysneed.com/2009/10/26/ef4-beta-2-kicks-it-up-a-notch/#comment-155 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:40:20 +0000 http://blog.tonysneed.com/2009/10/26/ef4-beta-2-kicks-it-up-a-notch/#comment-155 Hi Tony,
I’ve been carrying around the Dec 2008 MSDN magazine for many months referring to your excellent article “SOA Data Access”. I am a part-time programmer who likes to stay as current and adopt the latest technologies, but I have been challenged by EF. I can’t ever get an update to work, even when I closely copy your example code. L2S is easier. But, over time, I came to realize that the lesson of your article is that the data access method doesn’t matter much. It’s the POCOs. In which case I may as well stick with what I’ve been using and know well. ADO.Net. (Maybe they’ve fixed EF in v4, but I regret all the frustration I have endured so far in EFv1. I wish they wouldn’t release stuff until it’s ready.)

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