Welcome to the Entity Framework Contrib project

EFContrib will attempt to centralize links to projects on CodePlex that will help you work more effectively with Entity Framework in your applications.

EF4 Projects

• Visual Studio CSLA Extension for ADO.NET Entity Framework (t4csla.codeplex.com)Visual Studio extension and T4 templates for generation of CSLA objects from ADO.NET Entity Framework model.

• Entity Framework Repository & Unit of Work Template (efrepository.codeplex.com): T4 Template for Entity Framework 4 for creating a data access layer using the repository and unit of work patterns. Designed to work well with dependency injection frameworks. When dropped in a folder with an .edmx file, it will generate all necessary files.

• T4 Toolbox (t4toolbox.codeplex.com): T4 Toolbox is a set of ready-to-use code generators and T4 extensions for Visual Studio. Quickly build powerful C# or VB templates that generate multiple output files or simply use existing templates for LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework and more.

• Entity Framework Frequently Asked Questions (effaq.codeplex.com): The EF FAQ project provides a place for users of the Entity Framework to work together on a list of common questions and answers that come up while programming with the EF.

• EF4 Templates (ef4templates.codeplex.com): EF4 Templates uses T4toolbox to generate Repositories, Unit of work, POCO self-tracking entities that can be unit tested, along with validation for WPF, Silverlight RIA services and ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC. They also generate an ODATA service with authentication for usage with WPF.

• Entity Visualizers (entityvisualizers.codeplex.com/): This project has debugger visualizers for several objects in the Entity Framework: EntityObject, EntityCollection, ObjectQuery and ObjectContext. Some of the source code is based on code from Julie Lerman's book "Programming Entity Framework".

• Entity Visualizer (entityvisualizer.codeplex.com): Entity Framework Debugger Visualizer to display SQL source code generated by Entity Framework.

• EF4 LINQ extensions(ef4linqetensions.codeplex.com): Extensions for Entity Framework 4 to support things like Enums in Linq queries. EF4 Linq Extensions extends EF4 ObjectSet<T> to support queries using enums.

EF3.5 Projects

• PostSharp4EF: Automatically implement IPoco (for EF 3.5/VS2008)

• Plug-in Edmx Code Generator: easily add assemblies that will hook into the codegeneration part of Entity Framework. Check this blog post out for more info!

Community feedback

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