Entity Framework 6.1: Introduction Tutorial Video: The Entity Framework

This tutorial video will describe the Entity Framework. Microsoft’s ADO.NET Entity Framework is a complete ORM for .NET applications, which is integrated into the latest versions of the .NET Framework in Visual Studio. Microsoft has publicly declared that the Entity Framework will be its core data access technology for all .NET applications moving forward. This is a big commitment for Microsoft, in no small part due to all the existing lines of code using the generic ADO.NET data object; such as the data set, data table, and data reader. The initial release of Entity Framework was slow to gain traction, both because using the Framework requires a rather substantial paradigm shift in writing data access code, and because the first release had a number of shortcomings that made it hard to use and unable to handle many common data access scenarios.