This is the fifth part of a series providing some background to those who may want make contributes to the Entity Framework. In this post I’ll give an extremely high-level overview of the EF architecture. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2012
So you want to contribute to EF? Part 4: Developer experience
This is the fourth part of a series providing some background to those who may want make contributes to the Entity Framework. In this post I’ll talk a bit about maintaining a good experience for the developers who use EF. Continue reading
So you want to contribute to EF? Part 3: Testing
This is the third part of a series providing some background to those who may want make contributes to the Entity Framework. This post will cover the types of tests that at exist and expectations around writing new tests. Continue reading
So you want to contribute to EF? Part 2: The code
This is the second part of a series providing some background to those who may want make contributes to the Entity Framework. This post will cover the high-level organization of the code describing the assemblies created and some of the namespaces used. Continue reading
So you want to contribute to EF? Part 1: Introduction
As you have probably heard the Entity Framework source code is now available under an open source license. This means that the EF team are ready and excited to take your contributions.
The process for getting and building the EF code and for making contributions are documented on the EF CodePlex site. This series does not cover that information again but instead gives some context to help you in working with the code. This is the same kind of information that you would get if you joined the EF team. Continue reading
Why open sourcing Entity Framework is a great move
You have likely heard by now that the Entity Framework source code has been released under an open source license. I’m a developer on the EF team and I’d like to give you my perspective on this.
I’ve been on the team for several years and I have been involved a lot in the decision to take EF open source over the last year. (We’ve been working on this for quite some time.) That being said, keep in mind that everything on this blog including this post are my opinions and don’t necessarily reflect those of Microsoft or others on the team.
