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Entity Framework Tutorial (Update) - Second Edition

By : Joydip Kanjilal
Book Image

Entity Framework Tutorial (Update) - Second Edition

By: Joydip Kanjilal

Overview of this book

The ADO.NET Entity Framework from Microsoft is a new ADO.NET development framework that provides a level of abstraction for data access strategies and solves the impedance mismatch issues that exist between different data models This book explores Microsoft’s Entity Framework and explains how it can used to build enterprise level applications. It will also teach you how you can work with RESTful Services and Google’s Protocol Buffers with Entity Framework and WCF. You will explore how to use Entity Framework with ASP.NET Web API and also how to consume the data exposed by Entity Framework from client applications of varying types, i.e., ASP.NET MVC, WPF and Silverlight. You will familiarize yourself with the new features and improvements introduced in Entity Framework including enhanced POCO support, template-based code generation, tooling consolidation and connection resiliency. By the end of the book, you will be able to successfully extend the new functionalities of Entity framework into your project.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Entity Framework Tutorial Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Entity Framework mainly addressees how easily you can persist and query your data with many added services. You can use Entity Framework to focus on the object model rather than the logical model. In other words, you can add a level of abstraction on top of your relational store.

In this chapter, we explored Entity Framework and the architectural components of Entity Framework, and provided a comparative analysis between Entity Framework and other ORM tools. In the next chapter, you will learn how to get started with Entity Framework.