The ADO.NET Entity Framework is core technology in Microsoft's evolving data platform that bridges the gap between data structures and objects in your applications.
by Julia Lerman
December 3, 2007
he challenge of bringing data from efficient storage engines such as SQL Server into object-oriented programming models is hardly a new one. Most developers address this challenge by writing complex data access code to move data between their applications and the database. However, writing such code requires an understanding of the database, so that you can access data either from the raw tables, from views, or from stored procedures.
More often than not, databases are managed by DBAs whose job it is to ensure that the database is available, powerful, efficient, and secure. The means of accomplishing this generally take the data further out of the scope of your own concepts of how your data should be structured in your applications. It requires a solid knowledge of the database schema, table definitions, and stored procedures along with their parameters and results, views, keys, and more, so that you can create your data access code.
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he challenge of bringing data from efficient storage engines such as SQL Server into object-oriented programming models is hardly a new one. Most developers address this challenge by writing complex data access code to move data between their applications and the database. However, writing such code requires an understanding of the database, so that you can access data either from the raw tables, from views, or from stored procedures.
