Regardless of what version of Entity Framework (EF) you're using, if you're doing code-first development, you should be looking at Microsoft's Entity Framework Power Tools, even if it is still in beta ...

If you just need a couple of columns from a table, you can have Entity Framework fetch just the columns you want and ignore the columns you don't need.

Looking to assist developers in building business applications, Microsoft published a second beta version of ADO.Net Entity Framework this week and a community technology preview of tools to work ...