Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

When it comes to providing reliable, flexible, and efficient object persistence for software systems, today's designers and architects are faced with many choices. From the technological perspective, ...

Developing a persistent domain model for an enterprise application is challenging. The reason we implement the business logic with a domain model is because the problem domain is complex. Therefore, ...

Object-oriented persistence makes the code more concise and so also easier to understand. Actual computation of type-specific costs is performed in concrete subclasses such as the BulkyItem class in ...

Complex Types let you reuse structures in your database design. But unless you've been very lucky around the names in your database, you probably couldn't use Complex Types -- until Entity Framework 6 ...

Practical .NET Checking Up on Your Entity Framework Objects with DbEntityEntry The Entity Framework DbEntityEntry object lets you do all sorts of things you probably didn't think were possible, ...