The Entity Framework shipped as part of Orcas Beta 1; however, key functionality needed to make use of the framework practical, specifically the Entity Data Model Designer, had already slipped beyond ...

ADO.NET Entity Framework uses abstraction to scrub out complexity at the logical database layer, with a set of data access APIs in the .NET Framework 3.5 and corresponding tools in Visual Studio, code ...

In the Database First approach, you started with an existing database and used the Entity Framework wizard to create the Entity Data Model (EDM). The model was built as a one-to-one mapping between ...

Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.0 changed this situation radically. For the first time mainstream .NET development had a superb mechanism, in the form of LINQ, for programming the ...

Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 was released on March 14th. The most notable feature in EF Core 8 preview 2 is support for SQL Server hierarchical data.

Entity Framework 7, a major redesign of Entity Framework, provides support for non-relational data stores and in-memory data. Also, Windows Phone and Windows Store applications are supported.

In Entity framework you have a powerful client side query engine that you can take advantage of when you need to query data or perform CRUD operations on the underlying database.

Code First is a new development approach in the Entity Framework stack that can simplify the understanding and maintenance of your domain model. In the middle of 2008, Microsoft published the first ...