Is there a planned release date for Entity Framework 2.0?

Question

I am currently looking at different ORM solutions for a project that is planned for this spring. Entity Framework is one of the products I am looking closer at, but EF 2.0 would be quite a lot more interesting.

Has there been any indications to when version 2.0 of Entity Framework is planned to be released? With .Net 4.0?

Answer 1

Entity Framework v2 will be part of .NET 4.0. You can see information about v2 over at http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign and there is also a video from PDC

The first CTP of VS2010 and .NET 4.0 is already available - but I don't think it includes new EF features yet (will check on that) download CTP

Answer 2

AFAIK it hasn't been officially announced. The best hint I saw is here, so it's probably coming with .NET 4.0. I bet they will release a CTP before that.