>but does it support things such as lazy loading?

 

I don't think so.

 

>What's it's LINQ support like?

 

It's not a LINQ provider, you can just use LINQ to objects/collections as
usual.

 

>Caching?

 

Yes, but it's irritating and I turn it off.

 

>Change Tracking?

 

Yes. I like the way the entities are "loose" and track their own state and
there is no need for any kind of attach/detach.

 

>In its simplest form EF4 can act like a code generation tool, creating an
object hierarchy from the database.

 

I'm quite happy with that actually, mainly because that what I'm used to
with netTiers.

 

>It's also worth considering that knowledge invested in EF4 will be
worthwhile - I can't see it going away, and it's likely to only get better.

 

Indeed! That was a serious consideration when evaluating EF4.

 

Cheers,

Greg

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