Break it, fix it

One of the thing that annoyed me most in Entity Framework 1.0 was the lack of support for POCO. I like to use a specific vertical layer for entities, and I like those entities to have only properties and to be POCO to say it simply. The problem in EF 1.0 is that entities are forced to inherit from a class. I could also use the IPOCO interfaces but it was a lot of code for little benefit. The great thing I love in EF 4.0 (even if it is a beta) is that I can generate the edmx file without generating the classes. So basically, I have a EDMX file containing all the XML stuff (conceptual model, physical model and mappings) and I create my classes that Object Services will use. That way, I can put real POCOs in my entity layer. This is an entity that I can create and use with EF (and the corresponding EDMX) : public class Client { public int ID { get; set; } public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } public Address Address { get; set; } } EF wi