4. Developing Firebird Applications with Microsoft Entity Framework

This chapter will describe the process of creating applications with a Firebird database using the Microsoft™ Entity Framework™ access components in the Visual Studio 2015™ environment.

ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) combines an object-oriented data access technology with an object-relational mapping (ORM) solution for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It enables interaction with objects by means of both LINQ in the form of LINQ to Entities and with Entity SQL.