Data access protocols that use HTTP as the transport and adhere to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style are challenging traditional binary and Extensible Markup Language (XML ...

Microsoft has released a new community technology preview of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, which allows coders to program against data defined in a conceptual fashion instead of directly interacting ...

A vocal group of ADO.NET Entity Framework testers that has issued a "vote of no-confidence" is illuminating a long-standing conflict between a segment of the .NET development community and Redmond.

Hundreds of dissatisfied testers of Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework V1, which is still in beta, are staging a protest against the software giant by expressing what they call a "vote of no ...

EF (Entity Framework) is Microsoft’s flagship data access platform — an extended ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that abstracts the calls to the ADO.Net data access provider underneath. It is an open ...

The frequency with which Microsoft has changed database access technologies is remarkable, with each new scheme offering the promise that .NET developers have finally arrived at a long-term solution.

First introduced as a CTP this past summer, Studio for Entity Framework is now included in Studio Enterprise. The Entity Framework offering from ComponentOne adds ease-of-use and performance ...

Code First is a new development approach in the Entity Framework stack that can simplify the understanding and maintenance of your domain model. In the middle of 2008, Microsoft published the first ...

Entity Framework simplifies data access in your application by enabling you to write code to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations sans the need of interacting with the underlying ...