What's planned for the next Entity Framework version 6?

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Visual Studio 2012 came with Entity Framework version 5, and now that Visual Studio 2013 is soon here, we will most probably see Entity Framework 6 inside the (virtual) box. According to the current roadmap, the major features planned that are of great interest to me are:

  • Async support. This is based on the async features in .NET 4.5 (and C# 5).
  • Connection resiliency, i.e. configurable execution retries if the connection fails or is lost.
  • Manual transaction control. If need be, the developer can instruct EF to start, commit or rollback transactions.
  • Improved tooling. The aim is to combine EF Power Tools features into the Visual Studio main feature set, which would naturally be a nice improvement.

If you want to try out the current pre-release version of EF6, you can visit the project's CodePlex page.