>>>Hi All,
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>>>I'm a VFPer doing some gradual poking and prodding into the .NET world regarding data access. I've found some information on the web about the Entity Framework and I'm hesitant to learn more about it because of the negative stuff that I've seen and heard.
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>>>Has it improved since the no-confidence vote over a year ago?
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>>>Does anyone here have any experience with the Entity Framework and if so, what are your thoughts about it?
>>>
>>>What alternatives would you recommend and why?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>Mike
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>>Mike,
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>>The no-confidence vote and petition was a political ploy. I don't think it had merit. the EF has a lot of great feature and some of the objections raised by the vocal minority have been addressed in the forthcoming release. I have been using the EF for the last 9 months in a major LOB application with Silverlight and haven't had much trouble. You just have to learn to play in its sandbox and not try to force it to be what it ain't.
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>Ok. Do you have any recommendations for resources (books, online tutorials, white papers, etc.) where I can start learning the EF?

Julia Lerman's book by O'reilly on the EF is the best on the market. Her blog is the DataFarm. If you google it you'll find it.