What is ADO .NET Entity Framework

- a set of data access APIs
- targeting ADO .NET 4.0
- EFv4 (2nd edition) shipped with .NET 4.0 and VS 2010
- Entity Data Model is treated indepenently from its underlying datastore

WHAT IS LINQ??

- stands for Language Integrated Query
- able to query objects, ADO .NET (dataset, database, entities), XML

LINQ - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337893.aspx

LINQ to Entities - http://www.linqdev.com/PublicPortal/publicportal/linq-to-entities.aspx