A vocal group of ADO.NET Entity Framework testers that has issued a "vote of no-confidence" is illuminating a long-standing conflict between a segment of the .NET development community and Redmond.

You could add an ADO.NET Data Model to your project just to hold code to work with stored procedures (in which case, don't include tables from your database as I did in Figure 1).

Entity Framework 7, a major redesign of Entity Framework, provides support for non-relational data stores and in-memory data. Also, Windows Phone and Windows Store applications are supported.

Every version of Entity Framework Core has included performance enhancements over the previous one to the point where performance differences between EF, Dapper, and hand-rolled ADO code are ...