Entity Framework Core 3.0, which shipped on Sept. 23, includes a new LINQ implementation that Microsoft explained in an announcement post. LINQ (Language Integrated Query) uses C# code to query ...

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 ...

Unlike LINQ to SQL, which was specific to SQL Server, this would have a pluggable backend that theoretically could support any database. The scale of Entity Framework caused it to miss the .NET 3. ...

The designers in both LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework have a number of limitations. In order to work around these limitations, products such as Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools have been developed ...

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 ...