2.7. Summary

In this chapter you saw how to create entity classes and how, thanks to new attributes and their properties, you can easily map those classes to database tables. Then you analyzed DataContext functionality for interfacing with databases. You also saw how defining associations between entity classes simulates relationships between tables.

You then looked at advanced features, such as optimistic concurrency, stored procedures, and user-defined functions.

Finally, you used the Visual Studio Linq to SQL Classes Designer tool to create entity classes, and you used its improved debugger. The chapter concluded by analyzing LINQ integration with ADO.NET, specifically with DataSets.

In the next chapter we'll use LINQ to manage XML data.