Today starts with some exciting news. Beta 3 of the Entity Framework has been released. Not only does this play nice with VS008 RTM but it includes a nice amount of feature additions/improvements from beta 2. Be sure to check out the list of changes on the download page for beta 3.
As if that wasn’t enough, there has also been an update to the EF tools. I’ll be posting some material on the beta 3 offerings very soon.
First of all, congratulations (again) on the MS jobage… hopefully you can hook a brother up with a free X-Box!
Now, with the important stuff out of the way, I can ask… when the MSDN download page (as linked to above) says things like:
Much quicker object query execution
Simpler generated SQL
Faster view generation
… does that only refer to EF? or is LINQ to SQL updated as well (more importantly, is the “much quicker object query execution” talking about LINQ to Objects… or just EF?
Thanks,
-Timothy
I am sure Jonathan can answer it, but I think EF generates all LINQ for it access? Since we are not getting a LINQ update, I would expect that it is mainly the EF process being improved. But maybe I am way off.
C