Entity Framework simplifies data access in your application by enabling you to write code to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations sans the need of interacting with the underlying ...

Validation with Model First Entity Framework You might think that using Model First (or database-first) development will inherently restrict what you can do with your business entities, because the ...

Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...

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Validation should begin as close to your database as possible: in your Entity Framework entities. Here's how you can integrate validation code into both the entities the Entity Framework generates and ...