Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Developer’s Handbook

Chapter 27. LINQ to Entities: Programming with Entity Framework

In this chapter:
Prerequisites for Testing the Examples
LINQ to Entities: the First Practical Example
Querying an Entity Model
Modifying, Saving, and Deleting Data
Updating a Data Model from a Database
Model-First Design
Inheritance in the Conceptual Data Model
Executing T-SQL Commands Directly in the Object Context
Working with Stored Procedures
Looking Ahead

An entity in data modeling is a unique object that can hold information. This abstract definition already implies that LINQ to Entities must be a rather flexible process. But what does it do?

These days, developers create most data-oriented applications by using relational databases as the data store. The logical structure of ...