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  • Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Alpha - NuGet Package of the Week #10

    Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Alpha - NuGet Package of the Week #10

    Jul 11
    28

    Hot on the heels of my RFC blog post on product versioning, the Entity Framework team has released Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Migrations: August 2011 CTP. Cool. And it's July, too! Or my preferred product name, Migrating Magic Unicorns 0.5. It's probably best to think of this as 0.5 Alpha Migrations for EF but that's my guess at a name and not nearly as descriptive. I showed early daily builds of EF Migrations at a few conferences recently, and encouraged folks to comment on the ADO...

  • Class-Level Model Validation with EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3

    Class-Level Model Validation with EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3

    Dec 10
    10

    Earlier this week the data team released the CTP5 build of the new Entity Framework Code-First library. In my blog post a few days ago I talked about a few of the improvements introduced with the new CTP5 build. Automatic support for enforcing DataAnnotation validation attributes on models was one of the improvements I discussed. It provides a pretty easy way to enable property-level validation logic within your model layer. You can apply validation attributes like [Required], [Range], a...

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