EF Data Access: EF v2 and Data Access Architecture Best Practices

Posted: Jul/24/2009 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: .NET - .NET Framework Views:99 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

Developers deploy a wide variety of development philosophies and architecture styles. This article explores three common perspectives on application development and describes how the Entity Framework can be employed in each. Specifically, the article looks at the forms-centric, model-centric, and code-centric development styles and their relationship to the Entity Framework.Tim MallalieuMSDN Magazine August 2009

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