The .NET Entity Framework has come a long way since its early beginnings as an NHibernate alternative and the successor to LinqToSQL. Currently in version 6.0, the ORM is stable and mature but you ...

Code First Migrations allow for database changes to be implemented all through code. Through the use of Package Manager Console (PMC), commands can be used to scaffold database changes. In this ...

Entity Framework simplifies data access in your application by enabling you to write code to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations sans the need of interacting with the underlying ...

Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...