entity framework vNext wish list

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Published on 2010-04-03T22:25:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 22:33 UTC
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I have been intensively studying and use ef4 in my project. I do feel the improvement that it has over version 1. But I found that I have something I cannot get around easily. Here is a list I want it to be better in ef vNext.

  1. the model designer should allow multiple view of the same model, so that I don't need cram all my entity into a single view.
  2. respect user's manual edit of edmx. Currently, the some database view object simply can not be imported to the model because the designer "smartly" think that the view does not have a primary key, so that I have to manually edit the edmx to correct designer's behavior. But in the next "update from database" task, designer will revert my customization. For now, I simply fallback to manually edit the edmx file at all, or I have to use compare tool to keep the new update, and rollback and put the new update into my old edmx file manually. Designer should be improved to allow default behavior and user's manual control. I want control not to let the designer refresh the change of imported object.
  3. support user defined table function. linq is about Composability, stored proc dos not support composability. I wish I could use user defined table function which support this.

What are you wishes for EF vNext?

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