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Benefits of Entity Framework - Entity Framework Tutorial
From the course: Learning Entity Framework Core
Benefits of Entity Framework
- [Instructor] So there's a lot of benefits to using Entity Framework and ORMs in general. The first that I had mentioned was the reduction of code, the less likelihood that you need to write a lot of tedious code. And these tools provide a host of services that allow developers to focus more on the business logic of the application rather than repetitive CRUD operations, for example, creating, reading, update, deleting, that type of logic. So besides the reduction of code I also listed nine other benefits. The next is it facilitates implementing the Domain Model pattern. So, one of the most important reasons ORMs even exist is that your model entities can be based more on real business concepts rather than based on your database structure. So you can use terms like movie or person that reflect the real world so it makes it a little bit easier to digest when you are working through business logic. ORM tools provide the functionality, through mapping, between the logical business model…
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