Entity Framework - the lay of the land

[Kirsten Greed]

My 2c
 
Horses for courses
 
I am using  EF Code first and loving it.
 
Most of the posts on this thread are about building the thing right.
 
Yet I am finding that EF Code first helps me a lot with building the right
thing.
 
I find changing the database design is much easier now that I use EF
Migrations, this helps me stay in a "play" headset, lowering my fear of
changing the database structure.
 
There are places where I choose to break into transact-sql, but most of my
CRUD is done via DevExpress XAF with EF Code first.
 
My 2c :-)
Kirsten