INFO NEWS !!! Volume 1 | Page 7

INFO NEWS !! DbContext class gives you access to more Power Tools magic. You should, for instance, be able to generate a read-only version of the database-first visual designer for your model. I'd be lying if I didn't say that there are reasons that Power Tools is still in beta. Generating an entity class for every table is overkill (for any application I typically only need some of the tables in a database). I wish the Tools would let me use the configuration strings already set up in my project. And I'm not always able to generate the visual designer after generating my DbContext class. If those “undocumented features” concern you (or you're just uncomfortable with using beta software), there's an alternative: You can use the latest version of EF's visual designer to generate your code. By EspinozaMolina Ariel