ADO Entity Data Model Video

Karen Lopez - listmistress@Infoadvisors.com — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:46:48 GMT

A while back I posted a blog entry about Microsoft's feature addition to Visual Studio - Entities (or ADO Entity Data Model). In that post, I complained that the "redefining" of the term Entity Data Model was going to lead to even more confusion on development projects.

Today I watched an online video of using Visual Studio to work with Entity Data Model functions . While it didn't help assuage my misgivings about calling this feature Entity Data Modeling, it did help me understand what Microsoft means by data modeling. For now, it appears to be database modeling via reverse engineering of databases.

One of the things I did note, though, was that I preferred some of the graphical presentation features of the actual entities. The gradient shading and the drop shadows gave the models more visual appeal than most tools I work with. I know that these sorts of features come with a performance price, but I still think they were more visually pleasing.

I'm thinking of giving Visual Studio a try to see how these graphical features come out in printing and other presentations.

What do you think of them?

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ADO Entity Data Model Video