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An ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool is one that is used to abstract the data access logic of your application. You can use ORM to bridge the apparent mismatch between the data and the object ...

Microsoft announced Entity Framework 6.3 Preview, which takes the traditional open source object-relational mapping (ORM) framework to the .NET Core space, joining Entity Framework Core as an option ...

In conjunction with two other critical open source releases, Microsoft this week made its Entity Framework Core 1.0.0 available, providing a cross-platform version of the company’s flagship data ...

3rd party ORMs on .NET have been driven into a niche market and most of them lost that battle. If you compare the list of ORMs from, say, 2008, vs. today you'll see there aren't many left. Doing the ...

There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...