As Entity Framework gets deeper and deeper, the responsibility of building and managing what will become Microsoft's core for data access must get divvied up.

Alex James has recently moved from New Zealand to  join the team as Program Manager for MetaData in entity framework. That does sound narrow, but it's great that there's someone focused on that part of the puzzle, rather than the objects, LINQ to ENtities etc.

He's already written a bunch of posts about things I have been wanting to dig further into, so this is a win win situation as far as I'm concerened.

As his blog is new, it's easy enough to catch up by starting wtih the first post and read them all.

http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/default.aspx