Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Chapter 27. Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Introducting Entity Framework

• Understanding Entity Data Models

• Insert/Update/Delete for Entities

• Querying EDMs with LINQ to Entities

• Querying EDMs with Entity SQL

• Mapping Stored Procedures

Most applications require accessing data. This is a sentence that you already read in this book and probably in many other places, but it is so important. During the past years .NET developers had to access data using DataSets or they were required to work directly against the database. A new way for working with data was introduced in .NET 3.5 with LINQ to SQL, which is revolutionary because it proposes a conceptual object model that allows working with managed objects, being responsible ...