What is the utility of the Microsoft Entity Framework? EF allows me to map entities to databases (tables). I it possible to map entities to other queryable system?
I think of web services, specific calls to other system, exe, files, …
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What is the utility of the Microsoft Entity Framework? EF allows me to map entities to databases (tables). I it possible to map entities to other queryable system?
I think of web services, specific calls to other system, exe, files, …
Entity Framework is based on ADO.NET, so it can be used with anything that has an ADO.NET Data Provider.
Here is a link to the official ADO.NET Data Providers.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/dd363565.aspx
If you wanted to use it with an exe or web service, you could if you wanted to go through the effort of creating an ADO.NET Data Provider. However, this does not seem like a reasonable thing to do.