What is Xaml? XAML-Overview

XAML means Extensible Markup Language is a language to write user interfaces in Windows Presentation Foundation applications. XAML simplifies the creating user interfaces with windows presentation foundation and .net framework 3.0. We can create visible user interface controls and component via XAML.

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What is Xaml? XAML-Overview

ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2 & the 1st Entity Framework Tools CTP Released

Microsoft has recently release ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2 and the accompanying Entity Framework Tools CTP have been released!

Following are the added features of latest release:

-Events to customize code generation
-Abstract types in EDM models
-Complex types
- support in metadata files
-Entity key serialization
-Increased persistence ignorance in entity data classes
-Improved connection management in ObjectContext
-Improved DataBinding usability
-Metadata annotations
-Better support for span over LINQ to Entities queries
-Improvements to LINQ queries: additional canonical functions and automatic mapping from CLR functions to server functions
-A new event for extensibility of SaveChanges
-Usability and consistency improvements
-Polymorphic results from stored procedures

You can download it form here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=09A36081-5ED1-4648-B995-6239D0B77CB5&displaylang=en

For more details visit following ado.net team blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/08/27/entity-framework-beta-2-the-1st-entity-framework-tools-ctp-released.aspx

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To know what is ado.net entity framework. Please visit following link:

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2006/07/11/662447.aspx

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ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2 & the 1st Entity Framework Tools CTP Released