

It enables developers to work with data using objects of domain specific classes without focusing on the underlying database tables and columns where this data is stored.

Microsoft has provided a framework called "Entity Framework" to automate all these database related activities for your application.Įntity Framework is an open-source ORM framework for. This was a cumbersome and error prone process. NET objects or vice-versa to apply business rules. We used to open a connection to the database, create a DataSet to fetch or submit the data to the database, convert data from the DataSet to. NET 3.5, we (developers) often used to write ADO.NET code or Enterprise Data Access Block to save or retrieve application data from the underlying database.
