15.11. Summary

Telerik OpenAccess ORM is a powerful ORM solution that offers great flexibility and a large amount of features.

With the launch of the new Visual Entity Model Designer, the process of creating the data model has become even easier, but the Enable Project Wizard is still available and continues to be a common way to work with OpenAccess.

The configuration process is fairly simple, and the suggested approach is to create the data model in a separate project to allow the application to be more scalable and easier to test and to enable other applications to work with the target database. You also gain the benefit of allowing your application to migrate from one database system to another without changing your code.

Every data operation ...

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