Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...

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 ...

Chris Klug keeps seeing developers using Entity Framework in less optimal ways. Microsoft's open-source object-relational mapper (ORM) for .NET applications is not intended to be used to replicate the ...

Microsoft has a lot of database pilots and projects in the works, among them Katmai, Astoria, Jasper and Volta. But how do they all fit together? Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server, explained ...

A database model that describes the attributes of entities and the relationships among them. An entity is a file (table). Today, ER models are often created graphically, and software converts the ...

When Microsoft took the wraps off Dynamics 365 a couple of weeks ago, officials seemingly didn't want to talk much about tech. They were more intent on appealing to business decision makers. But most ...