I recently started investigating Entity Framework version 1. As many others have preceded me, I will not discuss what I believe are important issues or design flaws of EF. In stead I will focus on how to solve some of the issues and how to make better use of EF, as I believe EF deserves our attention.

Although I am not always thrilled of the Visual Studio designers that generate a lot of cumbersome code that does not fit in my frameworks, I decided to stick to the EDM designer which provides a graphical representation of my entities, and generates code that, thanks to partial classes and partial methods, is extensible to some degree. The knowledge that Microsoft intends to allow customization of the code generation process in later versions gives me satisfaction.

Focussing on client-server applications, I prepared some posts about better responsibility distribution and coping with detached object graphs.

So, stay tuned !