Summary

Entity Framework mainly addressees how easily you can persist and query your data with many added services. You can use Entity Framework to focus on the object model rather than the logical model. In other words, you can add a level of abstraction on top of your relational store.

In this chapter, we explored Entity Framework and the architectural components of Entity Framework, and provided a comparative analysis between Entity Framework and other ORM tools. In the next chapter, you will learn how to get started with Entity Framework.