The ADO.NET Entity Framework brings to life the Entity Relationship Model (ER Model) that many database developers have used, for 30 years, to capture and diagram conceptual models of data, prior to ...

ADO.NET Entity Framework uses abstraction to scrub out complexity at the logical database layer, with a set of data access APIs in the .NET Framework 3.5 and corresponding tools in Visual Studio, code ...

Using Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework, developers can create an entity relationship model of the database (ie SQL Server) inside Visual Studio 2008.