Relational databases aren't designed to make programming against them easier, but to ensure performance, data consistency and concurrency. Seldom do developers work directly with data in the form that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft in late August released beta 2 of its ADO.NET Entity Framework and with it, the much-anticipated first beta of the Entity Designer community technology preview and related tooling, which was ...

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 ...

Microsoft released Entity Framework Beta 3 on Dec. 6, and the company also officially announced the third-party database vendors and ADO.NET 2.0 data providers that have agreed to support the ...