Hi there!

Here a short overview of the SharpDevelop 4.0 Beta 3 EF integration - the photo story below is also available as YouTube screencast.:

1. Create a new project
   
   
   
   
2. Create a new Entity Framework Data Model
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Create a new database connection
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Copy connection string to clipboard
   
   
   
   
5. Choose database objects for EDM
   
   
   
   Tables, views and procedures to import can be chosen in this screen
   Model namespace and object context name define how you access the generated code
   
   
6. Close Designer.cs file and don't save it (should be fixed in the future)
   
   
   
   
7. Playing around in EDM designer
   
   
   
   
8. Changing "BirthDate" property for demo purposes and save the file to generate Designer.cs file
   
   
   
   
9. Add "app.config" file for connection string
   
   
   
   
   
   Now paste the copied connection string into the connectionStrings section of the new app.config file:   
   <connectionStrings>
           <add name="AdventureWorksObjectContext" 
                connectionString="metadata=res://*/AdventureWorksModel.csdl|res://*/AdventureWorksModel.ssdl|res://*/AdventureWorksModel.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&quot;Data Source=PHIL-PC;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True&quot;" 
                providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
       </connectionStrings>
   
   
10. Ready to go!
    
    
    
    Simply paste the following code into the Main method of your application:
    
                AdventureWorksObjectContext context = new AdventureWorksObjectContext();
                
                foreach (Employee employee in context.Employee)
                    Console.WriteLine(employee.BirthDateX);
    
    
11. Now compile and run the program!
    

Hope you enjoy it! ;)