Visual Studio Magazine

Speed O/R Mapping with LINQ to SQL: Table 1: Compare LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework.

LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework (EF) are both object/relational mapping (O/RM) tools for .NET, so it's not surprising that they share many common features. This table compares the most significant ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Will Entity Framework 2 Appease Early Adopters of LINQ to SQL?

With the release last week of the Visual Studio 2010 beta and the .NET Framework 4, developers are getting their first peek at Microsoft's next generation IDE. As reported yesterday in RDN Express, ...
Computerworld

LINQ in .NET returning duplicate rows from a working SQL view [SOLVED]

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...
InfoWorld

Best practices in optimizing LINQ performance

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. LINQ to SQL is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) ...
InfoWorld

How to use the DbContext in Entity Framework Core

Take advantage of the DbContext in Entity Framework Core to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using CLR objects Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an open-source object-relational mapper, ...