Entity Framework is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) tool for .NET developers. It supports multiple relational databases including SQL Server, MySQL, SqlLite, Postgress, Oracle, and others. All of the data providers of EF are open-sourced. The current version of Entity Framework is 6.1.3.
In this article, Rowan Miller, program manager in the Entity Framework team at Microsoft. He works on both Entity Framework and the new Entity Framework Core.
Some of the topics Rowan covers in this video:
- Why use Entity Framework
- EF saves you time and writes data layer classes for you. But it comes with an overhead and performance is slower than ADO.NET.
- Why choose Dapper, NHibernate, Entity Framework, and ADO.NET
- What is the difference between Entity Framework 6.x and Entity Framework Core
- EF 6.x runs on full .NET Framework while EF Core is a light-weight and runs on a smaller subset of libraries on multiple platforms
- EF 6.x is a Windows technology but EF Core can work where .NET Core can
Watch this video for more details:
EF 7 is the next version of EF. Here is another video, that talks about the future of EF 7.
Anu VPosted Aug 21, 2016, 11:57 PM
Nice one sir,
Gagan SikriPosted Aug 15, 2016, 6:18 AM
Good one sir :)
Suthish NairPosted Jul 25, 2016, 2:30 AM
Thank you MC. can you post the video URL also. Am facing issue in viewing the videos.
Vignesh ManiPosted Jul 24, 2016, 9:20 AM
Good one sir
Nigel FernandesPosted Jul 24, 2016, 2:29 AM
Good article
Rafael PorcherPosted Jul 23, 2016, 1:08 PM
We start a new system (WCF) to save over 100 records per second with EF. Some time after running on daily bases, we start to lose records. With this, we're forced to change to ADO for performance issues. On a test benchmark, ADO save (1 record header and 10 records in child table Key/Value) in 1 sec, EF saves the same in 6/7 secs, it's a lot. I have created Unitary tests for it, with the same data dictionary. I still thinking, with EF core, this will ocurr on the same way?
Vignesh ManiPosted Jul 23, 2016, 10:10 AM
Good one
Shobana JPosted Jul 23, 2016, 4:07 AM
Good article sir
Nagaraj SPosted Jul 23, 2016, 2:13 AM
Hello Mahesh Chand, Thanks for providing this content. I am a beginner to the Entity Framework. I have been wondering for long time why do we need to choose Entity Framework. This content provides some idea for my question.
Vivek TripathiPosted Jul 23, 2016, 2:03 AM
Nice sir, but still I think tha we use to bound ado.net many places due to performance reason
kalu singh raoPosted Jul 23, 2016, 1:27 AM
Nice Article