Preface

The ADO.NET Entity Framework, the next generation of Microsoft's data access technology, is an extended Object Relational Mapping (ORM) technology that makes it easy to tie together the data in your database with the objects in your applications. This is done by abstracting the object model of an application from its relational or logical model. It is an extended ORM in the sense that it provides many additional features that a traditional ORM does not.

This book is a clear and concise guide to the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Packed with plentiful code examples, this book helps you learn the ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services and build a better data access layer for your application.

The intent of writing this book is updating you to the latest trends and developments as far as Entity Framework is concerned.