Entity Framework 6 Recipes, Second Edition

Preface

Anyone who has been developing on the Microsoft platform for the last several years knows the drill: there’s a new database access technology every few years. There was ODBC, then DAO and RDO, OLEDB, ADO, and ADO.NET, LINQ to SQL, and now Entity Framework! Although this progression of technologies has introduced rapid change, it has also been wonderfully refreshing as we have evolved from simple open connectivity, to componentized connectivity, to disconnected access in a managed environment, to frictionless access syntax, and finally to conceptual modeling.

Conceptual modeling is the defining feature of Entity Framework, and it is at the heart of this book. Entity Framework builds upon the previous data access paradigms, and it provides ...