EF is not a framework as you're used to in VFP. It's simply an easy way to do ORM with .Net (really a VFP CA is just an ORM handler). Going with Code First EF is really, really easy to get setup and running. EF will then handle all the CRUD calls, connection handling, etc under the hood. You can be up and running in less than a day, including learning time.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937723


>For this project I can't use a framework (I need a solution faster). So my question would be, do you know if Entity Framework and/or NHibernate use SQLDataAdapter under the hood?
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