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 ...

The Entity Client Data Provider enables you to execute queries against the Entity Data Model using syntax and approach that is similar to the way you use your ADO.Net Provider.

Hundreds of dissatisfied testers of Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework V1, which is still in beta, are staging a protest against the software giant by expressing what they call a "vote of no ...

Microsoft has released a new community technology preview of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, which allows coders to program against data defined in a conceptual fashion instead of directly interacting ...

Progress Software Corporation has announced the release of DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET 3.5, extending support for Microsoft Entity Framework 4.0 to its Sybase, Oracle, and DB2 providers. With this ...

ADO.NET Entity Framework uses abstraction to scrub out complexity at the logical database layer, with a set of data access APIs in the .NET Framework 3.5 and corresponding tools in Visual Studio, code ...

Using Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework, developers can create an entity relationship model of the database (ie SQL Server) inside Visual Studio 2008.