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Well-designed databases can pose a problem for developers.
In the data world, a database is designed for maintainability, security, efficiency, and scalability. Its data is organized in a way that sa...
A central benefit of the Entity Framework is that it frees you from being concerned with the structure of your database. All of your data access and storage is done against a conceptual data model tha...
The Entity Framework is only the latest addition to the ADO.NET stack. How does that impact existing code that uses DataSets and DataReaders or LINQ to SQL? Can you continue to write new code using th...