Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Introducing Entity Framework

ADO.NET Entity Framework, also referred to as Entity Framework (EF), is a modern data platform included in .NET Framework 4.6. .NET 4.6 and Visual Studio 2015 have built-in support for Entity Framework 5 and 6. It is an object-relational mapping engine, but it is powerful, absolutely more flexible and powerful than LINQ to SQL. It enables you to create conceptual object models, known as Entity Data Models (EDMs), that provide a high level of abstraction from the underlying data source. Abstraction means that tables and tables’ columns within a database are mapped into .NET classes and properties, meaning that you do not work against the database but with .NET objects that represent the database so that you can take ...