Summary
In this chapter you got a high-level overview of ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4.6, also known as EF 6. Entity Framework is a modern data platform providing a high abstraction layer from the database that enables you to work with a conceptual model instead of working directly with the data source. Database objects are mapped to the .NET equivalent into an Entity Data Model object model. Entities are a key concept in the EF and are classes representing database tables, as much as scalar properties represent tables’ columns and navigation properties represent relationship. The DbContext class is responsible for managing the EDM lifetime, including the execution of Insert/Update/Delete operations that can be performed by invoking specific ...
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