Entity Framework 4 in Action

Part 4. Applied Entity Framework

You’ve learned how Entity Framework can simplify application development and make code more readable and usable. In part 4, you’ll discover how Entity Framework behaves in the real world. Web and Windows applications have different needs and different architectures, and by making Entity Framework entities aware of these needs, you can easily integrate them into any application. The context lifecycles of these applications differ too; web applications and web services are disconnected by nature, whereas Windows applications are connected, so different approaches are required.

In the real world, an application’s architecture must be aware of Entity Framework for both data access and testing. The domain-driven ...