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"We've got faster view generation, some simpler generated SQL, we've taken a lot of feedback from customers in some of these areas," said Elisa Flasko, program manager for the Data Programmability team at Microsoft.Beta 3 also offers more similarities to SQL, for example, partial methods in code-generation for certain property changed events.
"The changes have mostly been around the mapping and in the Entity Data Model of the Entity Framework itself," Flasko said.
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"Most of them are not huge code changes," asserted Flasko.
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"We've had the ability for a while in the runtime to use stored procedures in SQL Server behind the Entity Framework rather than dynamic SQL," explained Flasko.
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"We have been working with them, but at this point what we have are the providers that are included in the press release," Flasko said.
Microsoft is planning to release the ADO.NET Entity Framework and the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions, which will include the REST-based data services model (codenamed Astoria), in the same time frame.All of these technologies are expected in the first half of 2008, but the actual productization has not been finalized."We haven't locked down the ship vehicle for ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions," Flasko explained.