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I currently enjoy working with NHibernate + Fluent NHibernate. I considered Entity Framework v1 because of its mature Linq support but I do not like working with clicky designers; and it did not support POCO, anyway. Now EF v4 does support POCOs; however, does it still require to use designers? Well, maybe I can edit those XML files but it cannot be considered a programming activity (unless you're doing J2EE I think). So, would I be able to use Entity Framework only from the C# code, including model definition, etc? Yes, There is an add-on to .NET 4.0 that allows you to do this without a

The initial release of the Entity Framework wasn't regarded well in the development community . Developers felt a number of things were left out, and many continued to use other ORM's, such as LINQ To SQL and NHibernate . The good news, however, is that Microsoft has been hard at work on the 4.0 release of Entity Framework , which will bring with it many fixes, including lazy loading and POCO support. Many believed that the initial release of Entity Framework should have included these features; however, it is certainly comforting to see proof that the Entity Framework team has addressed