ASP.NET C# Database Other Languages VB.NET Articles > Database ADO.NET Entity Framework At a Glance The Microsoft® ADO.NET Entity Framework is an Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework that enables developers to work with relational data as domain-specific objects, eliminating the need for most of the data access plumbing code that developers usually need to write. Building an MVC 3 App with Database First and Entity Framework 4.1 Another article from Julie Lerman, if you haven't got her book on Entity Framework now, then you are missing probably one of the best computer books of recent times. Drag & Drop Databinding with the Entity Framework and WPF Excellent article from MSDN Magazine Julie Lerman (1 of 4) (Programming Entity Framework 4 - O'reilly ISBN:978-0-596-80726-9) on how to ease yourself into using databinding in WPF using the Entity Framework.