The Object Services Layer provides a more generic approach towards working with data – it uses an Object Query instance to process the data internally and execute your queries.

I do love Entity Framework. But, because Entity Framework is a whacking big wrapper around ADO.NET, I’m also interested in reducing the overhead around using it. One option for reducing Entity ...

If you're not using the Entity Framework DbCollectionEntry object when working with an entity class's related objects, then your application is running too slow. Using DbCollectionEntry lets you ...

In Entity framework you have a powerful client side query engine that you can take advantage of when you need to query data or perform CRUD operations on the underlying database.

Though separated from the .NET Core release cycle, EF Core is developing its 3.0 roadmap. Along with it are some important changes to the original Entity Framework.