Chris Klug keeps seeing developers using Entity Framework in less optimal ways. Microsoft's open-source object-relational mapper (ORM) for .NET applications is not intended to be used to replicate the ...

The latest version of the technology works fine with the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Here's some of what's new (along with how to move your applications to EF6). Entity ...

Microsoft ORM Mapper learns column types Vector and JSON in Microsoft SQL Server 2025. At the same time, there is a first ...

Entity Framework simplifies data access in your application by enabling you to write code to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations sans the need of interacting with the underlying ...

Assuming you're using the latest version of Entity Framework, the easiest way to update your database is to use DbContext's Entry class: It's just two lines of code no matter how many properties your ...

A typical screen in your user interface probably combines data from several different tables. To handle that, I typically have my back-end processes generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) which combine ...

EF (Entity Framework) is Microsoft’s flagship data access platform — an extended ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that abstracts the calls to the ADO.Net data access provider underneath. It is an open ...

Progress Software has released DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET 4.0, the most recent version of its suite of ADO.NET data providers that includes 100% managed code and eliminates the need for database ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft gave MSDN subscribers Release Candidate downloads of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. As promised, the releases are now available to the general public via the ...