Entity Framework 6 gives you a variety of ways to call stored procedures that return data and capture the results those procedures return. Here's a look at all of them. In an earlier column, I showed ...

Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer. I frequently get asked if Entity Framework (EF) in a ...

EF Core allows you to instantiate a DbContext in several ways. Learn when and how to use these different approaches in your ASP.NET Core applications. Entity Framework Core is an object-relational ...

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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 ...