Complex Types in the EDM Designer in EF4 and a look at updating complex types in code

Posted by: Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., on 21 May 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

One of the great features of an EF Entity Data Model is the complex type. However, the designer in VS2008 SP1 does not support ComplexTypes which is a big shame. You can manually modified the model to add a complex type into it, but alas, this would render the model unreadable to the designer and you would no longer be able to open the model up in design view. In VS2010, there have been a lot of improvements to the designer and complex type support is one of them. Here is a quick rundown of how...

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