Since the days of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 in 2008, Entity Framework has served as the primary data-access technology for the .NET ecosystem. Entity Framework is an object-relational mapper (O/RM) that enables .NET developers to work with a database using .NET objects. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that developers usually need to write. While Microsoft is aggressively pushing for cloud version of pretty much every piece of software they have ever created, Entity Framework still enjoys tremendous popularity, it was last year described by Microsoft as the most popular package listed by NuGet.org . Which is normal because "Entity Framework is Microsoft's recommended data access technology for new applications.", as Microsoft puts it. A comprehensive version history from EF 3.5 to EF 6.2 of today can be found here and the current state of EF and future updates (Entity Framework Core, Entity Framework 6, Compare and choose betw
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