InfoWorld

Working with the Entity Client Data Provider in Entity framework

Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...
InfoWorld

Best practices to improve Entity Framework performance

Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an extended ORM that helps you to isolate the object model of your application from the data model. It is an open source ORM framework for ADO.Net and is included as ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Calling Stored Procedures from Entity Framework

Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer. I frequently get asked if Entity Framework (EF) in a ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Updates Entity Framework, Even as EF Core Ascends

Microsoft shipped a new runtime release of the nine-year-old Entity Framework object/relational mapper (O/RM) even as it cedes mindshare to the newer, lightweight, open source and cross-platform ...
ZDNet

Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote

A number of testers who've been dabbing with the first version of Microsoft's ADO.Net Entity Framework are unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken with the technology -- so much so that they've ...