Entity Framework 4.0: My Favorite Books

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I'm in the process of reading several Entity Framework 4.0 books. I'm going to recommend two such books: 1) Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework by Julia Lerman 2) Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Larry Tenny and Zeeshan Hirani Visit these Entity Framework 4.0 Quick Start videos by Julia Lerman. The book links include numerous detailed reviews. If you can only afford one of the books, I'd recommend Julia's book as the...(read more)

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