out-of-box cache support?

No, this isn't something EF supports in this release. It is the kind of thing we will evaluate for possible support in a later release.

It would be useful to know, though, what exact scenario do you have where you would like to use this kind of feature?

Thanks,
Danny

DanielSimmons-MSFT at 2007-10-3 >

We do not have a plug-in cache model, although one could envision building on top of the object services a cache bound to a context factory similar to that in NHibernate. But, what we have today is a metadata cache which is bound to the connection string. For improving the performance of similar queries, we have a query plan cache that is bound to the metadata cache. It isn’t bound to the context and in that, sense can be thought as a second level cache.

As far as the scenario you mention, synchronization caches in n-tier deployments is not on the books for this release.

Thanks,

Naveen

NaveenValluri-MSFT at 2007-10-3 >