Today we have finally released an update to the POCO Templates that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Official announcement on the ADO.NET team blog.

One thing I will highlight is that the templates won’t be released with the final version of Visual Studio 2010. Instead we will continue to push releases through the Visual Studio Extension Gallery. This means you can easily download the POCO Templates using Visual Studio’s Extension Manager (accessed through the Tools menu).

Once in the Extension Manager, click the Online Gallery tab on the left side of the window and use the search box (top right) to type in "POCO template." After a few seconds you should see the POCO template extensions appear. There are two extensions, one for C# and one for Visual Basic.

After you install the extension, you’ll have a new item template for C# projects or Visual Basic projects (depending on which you installed) that will allow you to generate POCO entities from an Entity Framework model. For more in depth information on how to use the POCO templates, have a look at the POCO Template Walkthrough.

As always we are interested in your feedback so feel free to request features or report bugs through the Microsoft Connect web site.