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Entity Framework Tutorial (Update)

You're reading from   Entity Framework Tutorial (Update) A comprehensive guide to the Entity Framework with insight into its latest features and optimizations for responsive data access in your projects

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Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, as well as a speaker and the author of several books and articles. He received the prestigious MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award at ASP.Net for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. He is currently working as a Chief Software Architect at a reputed software company in Hyderabad. Joydip has almost 20 years of industry experience in IT, with more than 14 years in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. He has been selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) and as Community Credit Winner several times. He is the author of several books and more than 250 articles. Many of his articles have been featured at Microsoft’s Official Site on ASP.NET. Joydip has authored the following books:- ASP.NET Web API (Packt Publishing) Visual Studio Six in One (Wrox Publishers) ASP.NET 4.0 Programming (Mc-Graw Hill Publishing) Entity Framework Tutorial (Packt Publishing) Pro Sync Framework (APRESS) Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing) ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials (Packt Publishing) Joydip has also reviewed more than a dozen books till date. He was a speaker a speaker at the reputed Spark IT 2010 event and at the reputed Dr. Dobb’s Conference 2014 in Bangalore. He's also worked as a judge for the Jolt Awards at Dr. Dobb's Journal. He blogs these days at: http://www.infoworld.com/blog/microsoft-coder
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Preface 1. Introducing the ADO.NET Entity Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started 3. Entities, Relationships, and the Entity Data Model 4. Working with Stored Procedures in the Entity Data Model 5. Working with Entity Client and Entity SQL 6. Working with LINQ to Entities 7. Working with the Object Services Layer 8. Working with WCF Data Services A. Advanced Concepts Index

Introducing LINQ

LINQ is a query execution pipeline used in the managed environment of .NET Framework. In essence, LINQ is Microsoft's object relational mapper between your business objects and the underlying data sources, and provides a simplified framework for accessing relational data in an object-oriented fashion.

LINQ can be used to map your business objects and the underlying data sources. These data sources can be databases, objects, collections of objects, or even XML document files. Note that both C# (from version 3.0 on) and VB.NET (from version 9 on) have support for LINQ.

LINQ is a part of the new versions of the C# and VB.NET compilers, and it comes with a powerful set of operators to ease the task of querying different data sources, such as SQL Server, XML, and so on. LINQ comprises a standard set of operators to facilitate query operations. We will learn more about LINQ query operators later in this chapter.

Why LINQ?

We often require querying data and display them in the...

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Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, as well as a speaker and the author of several books and articles. He received the prestigious MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award at ASP.Net for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. He is currently working as a Chief Software Architect at a reputed software company in Hyderabad. Joydip has almost 20 years of industry experience in IT, with more than 14 years in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. He has been selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) and as Community Credit Winner several times. He is the author of several books and more than 250 articles. Many of his articles have been featured at Microsoft’s Official Site on ASP.NET. Joydip has authored the following books:- • ASP.NET Web API (Packt Publishing) • Visual Studio Six in One (Wrox Publishers) • ASP.NET 4.0 Programming (Mc-Graw Hill Publishing) • Entity Framework Tutorial (Packt Publishing) • Pro Sync Framework (APRESS) • Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing) • ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials (Packt Publishing) Joydip has also reviewed more than a dozen books till date. He was a speaker a speaker at the reputed Spark IT 2010 event and at the reputed Dr. Dobb’s Conference 2014 in Bangalore. He's also worked as a judge for the Jolt Awards at Dr. Dobb's Journal. He blogs these days at: http://www.infoworld.com/blog/microsoft-coder
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