EFProf – Profiler Tool for Entity Framework One of the important tools in your tool arsenal when you develop with an ORM tool is a profiler. Like SQL profiler to a SQL Server DBA an Entity Framework profiler is a must have tool to Entity Framework developer. The main reasons to acquire such a tool are to understand what is going on underneath the hood in the query engine and for performance tuning. If you think that you can use Entity Framework without knowing what it is committing to database then...
T4 Templates in Entity Framework 4 T4 templates or Text Template Transformation Toolkit is a mean of creating a code generation artifacts which can save a lot of time. This technology is a part of Visual Studio since 2005 but was one of those technologies that were kept in secret by Microsoft . Almost all the code generation stuff that is being used in Visual Studio in technologies such as MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL and many other use those templates as backbone to generate code. In this...
Entity Framework Mapping Helper Entity Framework Mapping Helper is a very useful tool that was written by the Entity Framework team and can help you to get started with various of mappings scenarios. “ Entity Framework mapping helper lets you create sample mapping files for the set of scenarios you are interested in. It’s a great tool for a deeper understanding for how schema files are defined for complex mapping scenarios in Entity Framework .” (The Entity Framework Mapping Helper description on...