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Is Entity Framework Suitable For High-Traffic Websites?

Is Entity Framework 4 a good solution for a public website with potentially 1000 hits/second? In my understanding EF is a viable solution for mostly smaller or intranet websites, but wouldn't scale ...
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Is SQL important if I know ORM frameworks well? [closed]

I don't have any serious experience in SQL and I even hate to write SQL instead of LINQ. I am happy enough with ORMs. From the employers and sector view point, is it important to know SQL? Do I have ...
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Entity Framework with large systems - how to divide models?

I'm working with a SQL Server database with 1000+ tables, another few hundred views, and several thousand stored procedures. We are looking to start using Entity Framework for our newer projects, and ...
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Is Entity Framework Code First a bit meaningless/useless in production and what is a good EF strategy for production?

I have been programming recently with Entity Framework 4.1 Code First and am loving it for development, but with only an end plan and a rapidly changing feature list, I am constantly modifying the ...
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MVC, WCF, EF, LINQ - Is it just me? [closed]

...or are things getting more complicated? It seems to me that you need to know a lot of stuff to 'properly' develop an MS web app these days. In the bad old days when we didn't know any better we ...
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What are some arguments AGAINST using EntityFramework?

The application I am currently building has been using Stored procedures and hand-crafted class models to represent database objects. Some people have suggested using Entity Framework and I am ...
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Is writing your own Data Access / Data Mapping Layer a “good” idea?

We're currently in a situation where we have a choice between using an out-of-the-box object-relational mapper or rolling our own We have a legacy application (ASP.NET + SQL Server) where the ...
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Should we use Entity Framework?

We currently have the following stack : VS 2005 Web forms SQL Server 2005 IIS 6 We are planning on transitioning to this : VS 2010 MVC and Web Forms SQL Server 2008 IIS 7 My question is, when ...
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Is There a Real Advantage to Generic Repository?

Was reading through some articles on the advantages of creating Generic Repositories for a new app (example). The idea seems nice because it lets me use the same repository to do several things for ...
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Is Entity framework reliable enough to use in a Corporate Project? Should I use Entity? [closed]

I'm a junior developer who's just completed a project using Entity framework. Unfortunately I was chewed out by one of the Senior Developers at my work citing that I should have used ADO.net and that ...
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Is it a good practice set connection strings in a web config?

Recently I have a discussion with some of my colleagues at my work because they said that it's better have in a .DLL a string connection encrypted. And I said why just don't use the string connection ...
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Is a Unique ID column needed in a many-to-many (junction) table?

Getting a few projects started with EF, but I had some questions about join tables and keys etc. Lets say I have a table of applications and a table of permissions. Applications have many permissions ...
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Should Repositories return IQueryable?

I have been seeing a lot of projects that have repositories that return instances of IQueryable. This allows additional filters and sorting can be performed on the IQueryable by other code, which ...
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Is Entity Framework ready for production?

I'm looking into Entity Framework for a new project that I'm going to be taking on and as part of my research into it I'm asking some industry professionals if it's stable and ready for 'real world' ...
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Entity Framework and layer separation

I'm trying to work a bit with Entity Framework and I got a question regarding the separation of layers. I usually use the UI -> BLL -> DAL approach and I'm wondering how to use EF here. My DAL would ...

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