does EF 4 have Audit and Logical Deletes support built in?

Question

Does EF 4 have built in audit / logical delete support? After using SubSonic and getting use to how nicely this was handled automagically I was hoping I might have the same luck with EF 4 but haven't found any documentation.

Answer 1

Not built in, no. You could build an audit feature fairly easily with the tracing provider. For soft deletes, you can handle ObjectContext.SavingChanges() to change a delete to an update and filter "deleted" records at the data service layer.