Entity Framework simplifies data access in your application by enabling you to write code to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations sans the need of interacting with the underlying ...

Relational databases aren't designed to make programming against them easier, but to ensure performance, data consistency and concurrency. Seldom do developers work directly with data in the form that ...

Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...

To support a real page, your entity model is going to need multiple entities and associations between them. Here's how to add them. This column continues my exploration of both Dynamic Data and Entity ...

Reading a data model can be a little intimidating, and comprehending some of the larger models can be comparable to reading the schematic of a 747 airliner. Yet, new developers are often thrown into ...

In the development business, there’s no excuse for a bad design. Unfortunately, you probably know developers who skip through or completely ignore the design process because they don’t understand the ...

Industry association the EDM Council is expanding the semantics repository with a legal entity data model, which can help firms build counterparty hierarchies. The growing focus on legal entity data ...

When Microsoft took the wraps off Dynamics 365 a couple of weeks ago, officials seemingly didn't want to talk much about tech. They were more intent on appealing to business decision makers. But most ...