I understand. I am looking at different approaches. My first objective is to create a very simple EF project to see how it works. I am sure I will find some simple tutorials on step-by-step instructions on the web; as long as they are not created by Microsoft (I can't say that I ever find any tutorials by MS helpful).
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>I didn't say whether LINQ makes things easier or not - I said EF was a pain with Stored Procedures.
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>I'm not hooked on LINQ either, but that's another story.
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>>>You can, but LINQ makes things much easier.
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>>>>PMFJI; over the weekend I read a tutorial on Entity Framework and it sound (the tutorial was not very clear on that though) that you can't use EF without LINQ. Is this correct?
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