ADO.NET data services or Entity framework - Which one to learn?

Question

Hi,

I am having a bit of a free time and i am planning to catch up on some new technology. I started of my .NET development career as a ASP.NET developer. Presently I am done with ASP.NET development,for that matter i am done with any front end development. These days i am into Business layer and DAL development with the primary focus on WCF service development and I am going to continue doing so. Given the situation which one would be helpful for me in moving forward? ADO.NET data services or Entity Framework?

Answer 1

Those are two totally separate items:

• ADO.NET Entity Framework is a data-access and data-modelling technology to handle database storage, modelling objects etc. on top of that

• ADO.NET Data Services is a REST-ful way of exposing such data models to a wide audience, by means of browsers and URLs

So basically, first you need to know a bit about Entity Framework, and then you should learn how to make that available to the world at large.

Marc

Answer 2

ADO.NET Entity framework and ADO.NET Data Services are different