Is there anything that would aid us in designing/scaffolding View models from SQL Server database tables but would result in very lean classes? I know something like that exists for Rails, maybe there's something similar in ASP.NET MVC?
I like what EF wizard creates but it's too heavy - too much attributes, constraints, events and everything is attached to the entities so you can't actually use them as View models (actually you can but it quickly becomes a pain).