Not so long ago I wrote about the problems of using Entity Framework (EF) in LOB applications. Just a few days EF team has announced June version. This release solves some of the problems I have described, so I could not pass by and decided to write this post. In it I ‘ll do a brief review of main features in the context of LOB apps.
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I work hard and write about ORMs. Especially about Entity Framework. Naturally I have accumulated a list of problems that I hope the developers will solve in the near future. As now their solution is too expensive. Under expensive solution I mean a set of hacks that are difficult to maintain. Let’s start.

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We have already talked about that BLToolkit can serve as a substitute as ADO.NET, and LINQ to SQL. Time to talk about the unique capabilities of this ORM. In this post I will tell about how to expend BLToolkit and open secrets of its performance.

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In the previous post we talked about what the BLToolkit was originally created as a high-level wrapper on the ADO.NET. Today we’ll talk about why BLToolkit is an ORM and its similarity with LINQ to SQL. As I promised, we will carefully consider a support of Linq.

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