(HT to Jonathon Carter @ Microsoft)
Somehow I managed to miss this in all the hub-bub over the slight delay in the MVC preview release: The ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 shipped on Thursday (06-DEC-2007).
Congrats to the ADO.NET EF team. I hope this release is a good one. I have to say that you have a tough mountain to climb to convince me to jump off of NHibernate, but I do sincerely want to thank you for bringing the concept of ORM to the greater Microsoft .NET community and for, hopefully, putting to rest forever the Windows DNA Stored Procedure-based data access methodology.