Your hands-on guide to Entity Framework fundamentals

Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 5. If you have previous programming experience but are new to the Entity Framework, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.

Discover how to:
• Access data in a managed way--using minimal code
• Apply three workflows supported by the Entity Framework
• Perform essential tasks with full automation in place
• Manipulate data with both LINQ and Entity SQL
• Create examples that rely on Table-Valued Functions
• Determine the remedies for Entity-specific exceptions
• Explore the use of optimistic and pessimistic concurrency
• Define mappings between your applications and data sources

John Paul Mueller, a technical editor and freelance writer, has covered topics ranging from database management to heads-down programming, and from networking to artificial intelligence. He is the author of Start Here! Learn Microsoft Visual C# 2010.