Introducing Entity Framework
ADO.NET Entity Framework is a modern data platform included in .NET Framework 4.0 as the second version, also known as EF 4. It is basically an object relational mapping engine but it is powerful, absolutely more flexible and powerful than LINQ to SQL. It allows creating conceptual object models, known as Entity Data Models that provide a high level of abstraction from the underlying data source.
Abstraction means that tables and tables’ columns within a database are mapped into .NET classes and properties, meaning that you do not work against the database but with .NET objects that represent the database so that you can take advantage of manipulating .NET objects under the CLR control, with IntelliSense support ...
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