I've been successfully using NHibernate as my first ORM for a few years. For the last year, I have decided to use Entity Framework instead. Here's what I liked and disliked.

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Paging and Sorting using ASP .NET Core Razor Page, Web API, and Entity Framework

15 Jan 2021 by DotNetLead.com

How to implement paging and sorting to yield good performance

How to Separate Self-Tracking Entities to Their Own Class Library

5 Dec 2010 by Gil Fink

How to Separate Self-Tracking Entities to Their Own Class Library

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EF Feature CTP5: Inheritance Scenarios with Code First Fluent API

12 Dec 2010 by Gil Fink

EF Feature CTP5: Inheritance Scenarios with Code First Fluent API

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Entity Framework 7 in Memory Provider Test

19 Apr 2016 by Sacha Barber

Entity framework 7 in memory provider test

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3 Ways To Refactor EF Linq Queries w/o Killing Perf

7 Sep 2019 by Lee P Richardson

This blog post lists 3 days to refactor EF Linq queries without killing Perf

Eager Loading with Repository Pattern and Entity Framework

18 Jul 2010 by Gil Fink

One question that I received yesterday after I published the Revisiting the Repository and Unit of Work Patterns with Entity Framework post was how to include the eager loading ability of Entity Framework. This post is offering a solution.R

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Using EF DbContext with WCF Data Services

11 Dec 2010 by Gil Fink

Using EF DbContext with WCF Data Services

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WCF

EntityType: EntitySet ‘[Entity Name]’ is Based on Type ‘[Entity Name]’ that Has No Keys Defined

9 Nov 2015 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

EntityType: EntitySet ‘[Entity Name]’ is Based on Type ‘[Entity Name]’ that has no keys defined

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Getting inspiriation to solve problems

17 Sep 2009 by mrjvdveen

This time I would like to share an experience with you that I had trying to get inspiration to solve issues more effectively.

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Three-tier .NET Application Utilizing Three ORM Technologies

23 Dec 2009 by Bryan Thomas Weikel

CodeProject"LEK" is a three-tier .NET WinForms accounting application that can be configured at run time to use either LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework or NHibernate to access data in either a "main" or "testing" SQL Server database.

Mixing Table Per Hierarchy and Entity Splitting

8 Aug 2010 by Gil Fink

The post shows how to combine Table Per Hierarchy and Entity Splitting methods

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ADO.NET

Building OpenPOS: Part 10 – Code First

12 Aug 2010 by rudigrobler

Building OpenPOS – Code First

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #37

15 Oct 2010 by mrjvdveen

Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

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Silverlight

Adding Metadata to Entities in The Data Model

20 Jan 2011 by Gil Fink

Adding Metadata to Entities in The Data Model

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RIA

EF4 DbDataRecord ConvertTo

1 Feb 2011 by AlexCode

EF4 DbDataRecord ConvertTo

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My SDP Lecture Interview

27 Feb 2011 by Gil Fink

My SDP Lecture Interview

Continuous thinking: just ship it - the story of NerdBeers

7 Mar 2011 by Tom Janssens

Continuous thinking: just ship it - the story of NerdBeers

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Combining WCF Data Services, JSONP, and jQuery

25 Apr 2011 by Gil Fink

A simple example of making a JSONP call to a WCF Data Service using jQuery.

ASP.NET MVC3 Controller with Entity Framework CodeFirst

27 May 2011 by ambilykk

ASP.NET MVC3 Controller with Entity Framework CodeFirst

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Pimpin' the Blog

20 Aug 2009 by mrjvdveen

In this article I will describe to you why I want to change my blog, what I'm trying to achieve, how I plan to do that and whats in it all for you.Why?After writing only a few articles in Blogger and reading up on how to build a usable blog, I knew that at some point I would have to replace Blo

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #9

18 Aug 2009 by mrjvdveen

Well, here we are again, already for part #9 of our series on using Silverlight in an Enterprise application.

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #8

18 Aug 2009 by mrjvdveen

Well, it's been a while again. Sorry about that, but it's been really hectic around here.At the moment we are digging into the back end of our application. You may remember from previous episodes that we use WCF services in our back end.

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Mocking the Unmockable: Using Microsoft Moles with Gallio

31 Jul 2010 by Thomas Weller

CodeProjectUpdate 29/04/10:In contrary to what I initially stated in this post, Moles is not only available as part of the Pex framework, but also stand-alone on Visual Studio Gallery, and this is completely free (no MSDN subscription required). - Thanks to Peli for the correction...

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Building OpenPOS: Part 10 – Code First

23 Aug 2010 by rudigrobler

Historically Microsoft has always focused on the “Database first” model, where you build a database and then from this database create a data layer… With Entity Framework 4, we now can do what is referred to as “Model first” design.

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #39

9 Dec 2010 by mrjvdveen

In this post, we look at an issue we had while implementing a specific form of data entry for our application. Basically there was an oversight in our reasoning about CRUD operations that needed fixing. It also shows the power of GUIDs.

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Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #40

6 Jan 2011 by mrjvdveen

As we are close to releasing our first version and we will have some time on our hands to do clean up on our sources, today we want to look at some of the things we would like to do in order to improve our codebase.

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Microsoft Embraces the Domain Model

22 Mar 2011 by Adrian Alexander

Microsoft Embraces the Domain Model

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EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1b – the provider

20 Jan 2011 by Leom Burke

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1b – the provider

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EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1c – the unit tests

7 Feb 2011 by Leom Burke

A look at unit testing data access when using Entity Framework code first

Dynamically Build LINQ Expressions

3 Jun 2020 by Jeremy Likness

A primer on using LINQ to wring strongly typed queries directly in code

Fluent API vs Data Annotations- Working with Configuration-Part 1

15 Oct 2012 by Monjurul Habib

Domain Model Layer will be better isolated from infrastructure implementation. Everything what you can configure with DataAnnotations is also possible with the Fluent API. The reverse is not true. So, from the viewpoint of configuration options and flexibility the Fluent API is “better”.

Select N+1 Problem – How to Decrease Your ORM Performance

18 Aug 2010 by Gil Fink

This post will introduce the select N+1 pitfall and explain how to avoid it in Entity Framework.

Entity Framework: Get Mapped Table Name from an Entity

19 Mar 2012 by Rui Jarimba

Extension methods for ObjectContext and DbContent to get the mapped table name from an entity

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ADO.NET

Paging in ASP.NET Web API

21 Jan 2016 by Spencer Schneidenbach

A useful paging model using ASP.NET Web API, Entity Framework, and AutoMapper

Entity Framework 4 (EF4) Adventures

30 Jun 2010 by Ali Ozgur

IntroI've been recently working on a smart client (WinForms) application backed by Entitiy Framework 4 (EF4) on Visual Studio 2010.

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Top Features of ASP.NET vNext

27 Oct 2014 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

Of course, as the name suggests, it is the upcoming version of ASP.NET.

The Entity Framework (v1 and v4) Deal Breaker: TPT Inheritance

18 Mar 2010 by Sam Meacham

So what’s wrong with EF’s TPT inheritance? The SQL that EF generates. With some simple testing (2 or 3 subclasses) everything may appear to be fine. In fact, you may even be impressed that EF manages to fetch all the data you need in a single trip, indeed, in a single query.

Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action

26 Jan 2011 by Gil Fink

The book is all about Entity Framework 4.

Windows

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ASP

Build Data-Driven Web Apps Blazing Fast with Blazor and OData

21 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Build data-driven .NET applications with seamless client-server communication using fluent C# LINQ over OData (like GraphQL but without the JSON).

Guidelines to Fluent Interface design in C# - Part 2

5 Aug 2010 by Andre Vianna

Some techniques to code each part of the sentence with some samples.

Windows

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WTL

Dynamic Linq Queries

7 Jun 2009 by StormySpike

Alright, let’s assume that we are lazy coders, we have building a lot of Linq queries lately, and it’s getting repetitive. We keep having to remember to add a certain where clause to every query, couldn’t we just abstract this somehow?

EFProf – Profiler Tool for Entity Framework

11 Aug 2010 by Gil Fink

One of the important tools in your tool arsenal when you develop with an ORM tool is a profiler. This is a review of EFProf.

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ADO.NET

Entity Framework 4 New Operations

14 May 2010 by JasonShort

There are some new operations in .NET 4 Entity Framework. This a quick example of each working with VistaDB 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

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Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework

18 Jul 2010 by Gil Fink

Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework when we want to retrieve only a portion of data from a table in the database permanently by some filter.

What you need to know about Entity Framework Data Context

25 Sep 2015 by Arian Celina

This article is a part of a multi-post article on Entity Framework Code First for web applications: Entity Framework Code First Entities and entity relationships What do you need to know about Entity Framework Data Context Entity Framework Migrations and Data seeding This article is the second

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EF6.0

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LiteDb Review

23 Jun 2019 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Some LiteDB use cases

Use dynamic type in Entity Framework 4.1 SqlQuery() method

4 Jun 2011 by mazhou

The DbContext.Database.SqlQuery() method offers a way to execute a SQL command then map the returning result set to a strongly typed object or a list of strongly typed objects.

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Revisiting the Repository and Unit of Work Patterns with Entity Framework

18 Jul 2010 by Gil Fink

In the past I wrote two posts about the Repository and the Unit of Work patterns (here and here). Today I want to show a better and less naive solution for imposing the Unit of Work and the Repository patterns with Entity Frame

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Exposing OData from an Entity Framework Model

10 Jun 2010 by JasonShort

Exposing OData from an Entity Framework Model

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ADO.NET

EntityFramework CodeFirst – DbContext Initializer

25 May 2011 by ambilykk

EntityFramework CodeFirst – DbContext Initializer

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Entity Framework Code First Entities and entity relationships

23 Sep 2015 by Arian Celina

This article is a part of a multi-post article on Entity Framework Code First for web applications: Entity Framework Code First Entities and entity relationships Entity Framework Data Context Entity Framework Migrations and Data seeding It is not very often that I see web development tutorials

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EF6.0

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Smooth Transactions with TransactionScope

3 May 2019 by Rion Williams

Smooth transactions with TransactionScope

Entity Framework with ASP.NET MVC

16 Aug 2009 by Farooq Kaiser

In this article, I will explore the entity framework with ASP.NET MVC. We will modify the form validation sample that will access the data layer using the Entity Framework.

Var is Bad

7 Jun 2010 by Charles Boyung

Var is Bad

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C# Modifiers Use and Abuse – Part 1

14 Nov 2018 by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Modifiers in C# - use and abuse

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