What is the equivalent of JPA in .NET?

Question

I think JPA is nice and convenient ( not to mention standardising, as we used to have every individual programmer doing his/her own thing with a jdbc connection).

I would like to use something like jpa with C# to mysql and sqlserver.

Answer 1

Entity Framework is what you should check out first. It is recommended by Microsoft.

Other popular options include NHibernate or DBLinq.

http://community.jboss.org/wiki/NHibernateforNET

http://code.google.com/p/dblinq2007/

Answer 2

Isn't JPA just a Java ORM?

.NET has many ORM tools, namely

• ADO Entity Framework
• NHibernate
• Active Record
• LINQ to SQL

and plus my favourite

• LightSpeed