ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP is Available for Download

This install is a little weird. I will be waiting until it syncs up with one of the major releases of Visual Studio 2008. Right now the installation requirements call a freshly installed machine in order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 June 2007 CTP, Visual Web Developer Codename "Orcas" Express Edition June 2007 CTP, and the ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP.

I already have 4 Virtual Machines I am maintaining and I don't want another one.

Check out the New installation instructions for June 2007 CTP for instructions on installing it if you are interested.

Overview (from MSDN)
This CTP contains updates to the ADO.NET Entity Framework since the Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Beta 1 release, including changes in Object Services, Query, Entity Client, and the Entity Data Model Wizard in Visual Studio. Some of the new features include IPOCO, detaching from long-running ObjectContext instances, multiple entity sets per type, support for referential integrity constraints, span support, transactions, serialization, no more default constructors in code-generated classes, improvements to stored procedure support, access to the underlying store connection, directory macros in the entity connection string to support hosted scenarios, native SQL read-only views, UNICODE support in Entity SQL, query plan caching, and canonical functions in Entity SQL.

Get it Here.
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