In the middle of 2008, Microsoft published the first version of the Entity Framework (Entity Framework 1) as part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The Entity Framework was created as an object-relational ...

House plumbing isn't sexy, but I wouldn't want to live without it. Nor would I want to neglect the primary plumbing of my application architecture: data access. Using an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) ...

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