Entity Framework 1 gives you some support for issuing SQL statements and Entity Framework 4 gives you more. Two caveats before we begin: First, in this column I'm not going to make an effort to come ...

The basic distinction between these two O/RMs is that Entity Framework (EF) is targeted at enterprise scenarios, while LINQ to SQL is best suited for rapid application development (RAD) with SQL ...

Unlike Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL is best used as a simple query and update mechanism without any customization aside from basic table mappings. Database Vendors do not like it either for an ...

One of the new features in Entity Framework Core 2 is the ability to automatically convert interpolated strings into parameterized SQL. Though designed to avoid problems with poorly written SQL, it is ...

Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an extended ORM that helps you to isolate the object model of your application from the data model, i.e., from the way the data is actually stored and represented ...

Entity Framework doesn’t provide support for pessimistic concurrency out of the box. Let’s now understand how Entity Framework resolves concurrency conflicts when working in the optimistic ...