MicroNugget: What is the ADO.NET Entity Framework?

In this video, Garth Schulte covers the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This powerful tool will allow you to save time when developing applications that utilize a database. He begins by discussing the primary reason behind its development, then outlines how you can use it to streamline your app design process.

To get a good grasp of what the Entity Framework is all about, Garth begins by discussing its origins.

Prior to its development (as well as that of LINQ2SQL, which is very similar to the Entity Framework), you’d use a labor-intensive tiered approach when designing and building an application.

While this layered approach is still the basis for app design, Entity Framework abstracts quite a bit of the process, relieving you of the heavy lifting and allowing you to focus your time and effort elsewhere.

Garth provides the context you need to understand this technology, demonstrating its utility and how you can leverage it for your own applications.

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[JATRX]

finally someone who explained it properly, thanks.

[JATRX]

I have a question that concerns Linq to SQL and Entity Framework. In ADO.NET we could write different universal statements for all tables and attributes by simply editing the command string, how can it be done with Entity Framework and Linq to SQL? It seams like you can only access tables by hard-coding it. Sorry if the question is silly ;)

[nolimitsREAL]

So If I understand correctly, You are creating a database, let's say Person and with entity framework, helps you create a Class Person with all the fields from the database Person ?

[Battusai]

istead of draggin the config down, reffrence system.configuration ?