Web Services for Data: Using ADO.NET Data Services Against EF Models
We have offered a fairly critical evaluation of both L2S and EF thus far, even while highlighting their features and pointing out their elegance. But we also mentioned that Microsoft seems to be taking a liking to ORM and is building new technologies on top of both L2S and EF. One of those technologies, ADO.NET Data Services (code-named “Astoria”), is very compelling indeed. It permits you to create a Web Service on top of your EF model, and do so with almost no code whatsoever.
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Out of the box, ADO.NET Data Services can work against L2S models as well, but only for read/select ...
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