ADO.NET Entity Framework

Question

I have little bit knowledge on Entity Framework.As we can do almost all operations using MS Application Block,What are the benefits do we gather using Entity Framework ?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

MS Application Blocks are meant to help you add standard functionality to your applications without hand-rolling the code yourselves.

The Entity Framework is an ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) that is meant to make mapping the data in your database to Objects in your code seamless.

Two completely seperate tools.