Using the ADO.NET Entity Framework
Vidya Vrat Agarwal · Apress eBooks · 2012
Many database developers thought that database APIs were mature enough with the release of ADO.NET 2.0 and LINQ, but these data access APIs continued to evolve. Data access APIs are reasonably straightforward to use, and they let you simulate the same kinds of data structures and relationships that exist in relational databases. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.