Entity Framework 4 missing features?

Posted by Roger Alsing on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Roger Alsing
Published on 2010-05-09T09:45:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 9:48 UTC
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I'm well aware that similair topics have been brought up before e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1639043/entity-framework-4-vs-nhibernate

But instead of arguments like:

NHibernate have been around longer and is more mature
EF4 is drag n drop and not enterprisy
EF4 and LinqToSql are ...

I would like to see a more detailed list of features that you consider missing from EF4.

Personally, I think the lack of enum support is the biggest drawback of EF4.

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