ADO.NET Oracs Future Directions 7
Also see part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this series of posts on the next-generation data access for the .NET platform. Please note that this information is subject to change.
There will an edm.exe tool in the SDK to generate source code from your csdl file (discussion).
There will be stored procedure support for two scenarios: 1) Override change processing for a given EntitySet/Entity type, it will bypass the internal change processing infrastructure and instead bind the properties of the entity to store procedure parameters and then execute the stored procedure. 2) Retrieve data by doing selects directly against the logical schema (discussion).
Relaxing the requirement for entities to derive from Entity base, and should implement IEntity instead (discussion).
Map multiple schemas to a single EDM schema (discussion).
Support for computed colums (discussion).
No support for mapping across different database connections. I is however possible to have multiple entity containers within a single server instance (discussion).
Most likely there will be support for Oracle (discussion) in V1.