直接从下载站点得到的信息:
In addition to supporting the production release of the .NET Framework 3.5, the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 has the following new features and improvements since the Beta 2 release:
Performance improvements
- Much quicker object query execution
- Simpler generated SQL
- Faster view generation
Easier disconnected operation
- Public, serializable EntityKey property on EntityReference
- ApplyPropertyChanges
- Attach on EntityReference
- Improvements to EntityKey serialization
Extensibility and business logic enhancements
- Partial methods in code generation for property changing and property changed events
- Load with MergeOption
- AssociationChanged Event
Query improvements
- Additional canonical functions for LINQ to Entities
- Apply operator elimination (makes more operations work in SQL Server 2000 and other databases)
- Compiled LINQ query
- ToTraceString() method on ObjectQuery<T> and EntityCommand to facilitate debugging
Other
- Connection management refinements
- Provider interface allows better reasoning about primitive types
Be sure to download the Entity Framework Tools December 2007 CTP as well for integration with Visual Studio 2008.