.NET classes from EDM schema and entity relationships

Moving the thread to ADO.NET CTP.

To the first question - when you generate classes from EDM schema, the database is not accessed.

To the second question - you can create EDM files manually in which case no database is accessed. But you may use a tool (EntityModelGeneration.exe?) that needs a database to generate all the files for you.

ZlatkoMichailov-MSFT at 2007-8-30 >

Yes, we have plans for upcoming releases.

The entity mapping tool (internal prototype I mentioned in another thread) has a schema translation feature that allows generating a relational schema (.ssdl file) from an EDM schema (.csdl file) and exporting SQL DDL to create the necessary tables in the database. It supports 3 standard inheritance mapping strategies (TPH, TPC, TPT).

Again, the release schedule and feature scope are pending.

- Sergey

SergeyMelnik-MSFT at 2007-8-30 >