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Simplifying Entity Framework: Data-Driven Design


This article reviews the theory and practice behind ADO.NET Entity Framework, discusses limitations of the current tools it provides and compares the benefits offered by solving the object-relational impedance mismatch against their costs. The article suggest using Entity Framework to improve and reduce costs of data-driven application design, which is prevalent in todays information systems and describes a code generation solution built using T4 Toolbox that can be used to achieve this goal.

T4 Template for Generating ADO.NET Entity Framework Stored Procedures


David DeWinter posted a great article about using T4 to generate stored procedures for ADO.NET entity data models. It includes a ready to use T4 template that will generate stored procedures for every .EDMX file in a given directory.