Industrial-Strength Entity Framework

The Microsoft Entity Framework is Microsoft's strategic approach to data access technology. While it fits well in smaller applications, implementation in large applications can become challenging. Come get a 360-degree understanding of how to implement Entity Framework in large-scale, enterprise applications. In this session, we look at where Entity Framework fits into your application architecture and how you can leverage it to increase developer productivity. We discuss battle-tested patterns and hard-won best practices that you can wrap around Entity Framework to help ensure success with large, enterprise applications. Explore strategies you can implement to help increase performance; and look at effective approaches for scalability, context management, and concurrency challenges. Evaluate the tradeoffs between Entity Framework-generated SQL and mapping stored procedures. You’ll walk-away with a better understanding of how you can leverage Entity Framework to construct large, enterprise applications.