EF 4.x POCO Entity Generator for C#

by Dragan Radovac | April 14 2012

Cool !

by Celiker | January 25 2012

Very Nice...

by mattd73uk | September 15 2010

This is brilliant. I was about to write a T4 that did this myself, and stumbled onto this. Course I'm working on the assumption it'll be updated, but is in fact what should be built into EF: developers should have the option of the "heavy" domain classes or POCO classes when generating the EDM. So no issue is big enough for me to give it less than 5 stars.

runxc1's criticism seems to come from not really understanding what the EDM is. The edmx file consists primarily of three XML documents that describe the db, the model, and the mapping between them. This is essential and isn't going anywhere - it is used by the Entity Framework to work out what in the db maps to what in code. What this template does is strip out the painfully polluted domain class definitions that were generated in the edmx.cs file, and replace them with the lovely unpoluted equivalents.

Well done Diego, excellent job. Any idea of when this'll be a a standard option in EF?