Preface

Yatta, we did it! We wrote a book about Entity Framework! It’s not our first book, but it’s the first one written in English and distributed worldwide. It was a great challenge, but having the opportunity to spread the word about Entity Framework made it worth the effort. Entity Framework is a great tool that speeds up the development of data access code and that can save you days and days of coding. We know coding is our job, but wouldn’t you prefer to be more productive while writing less and better code?

Entity Framework is a great O/RM tool that’s integrated into the .NET Framework, meaning not only is it free, it’s also maintained and improved in each .NET Framework release. The result is that it’s a great platform today, and tomorrow it will be an outstanding one that will likely rule over all other O/RM platforms.

When we started planning this book, we had a clear idea in mind: we didn’t want to create a reference book; we wanted to create a practical one. We wanted you to read about real-world problems and learn real-world solutions. That’s why we developed an example and improved on it throughout the book, avoiding common pitfalls and solving problems that you’d face on the job.