Data access protocols that use HTTP as the transport and adhere to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style are challenging traditional binary and Extensible Markup Language (XML ...

Relational databases aren't designed to make programming against them easier, but to ensure performance, data consistency and concurrency. Seldom do developers work directly with data in the form that ...

Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer. I frequently get asked if Entity Framework (EF) in a ...