</ iframe > </noscript> <!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) --> <div id="BeforeHeaderContent"> </div> <div id="HeaderContent"> <div id="ProjectTitle">DataSource for Entity Framework in WPF</div> <div id="PageTitle"><div id="PageTitleText">C1DataSource Introduction</div></div> </div> <div id="AfterHeaderContent"> <!-- Spacing --> <span id="ToggleAllSectionsLink" class="FunctionLink"> <label id="CollapseAllLabel">Collapse All</label> <label id="ExpandAllLabel" style="display: none;">Expand All</label> </span> </div> <div id="BodyContent"> <p>In designing the Entity Framework, Microsoft set out to create a platform agnostic means to allow developers to communicate easily with the database that underpins their desktop or server applications, and with WCF RIA Services, this principle was further extended to the Silverlight platform. Each of these frameworks provides developers with an almost ideal solution to promote data persistence (the controlled retrieval and return of data to an underlying database) but falls short of providing them with an easy way to create the application logic and interaction with bound GUI controls that forms such an intrinsic part of most applications that are being built nowadays. DataSource for Entity Framework has been specifically designed to meet this shortfall. It enhances both frameworks by providing additional functionality and improving overall application performance. In short, it provides developers with the means to speed up the development of typical line of business applications and write less code to achieve their goal.</p> <p class="MsoBodyText"> The following topics will examine these performance-enhancing features of the C1DataSource in more detail, but we’ll begin by examining the critical improvements it makes to the two core frameworks.</p> <a name="seealsobookmark"></a> </div> <div id="FooterContent"> <p> </p><p> </p><hr style="height: 1px"><p>Copyright (c) <script type="text/javascript"> var theDate=new Date() document.write(theDate.getFullYear()) </script> GrapeCity, inc. All rights reserved. <script> $(document).ready(function() { if (!(window.self !== window.top)) { // Not running in a frameset // Get the page name var pageName = location.href.substring(location.href.lastIndexOf("/") + 1); if (pageName.indexOf("#") != -1) { pageName = pageName.substring(0, pageName.indexOf("#")); } // Append to webframe.html var framePage = "webframe.html#" + pageName; location.href = framePage; } }); </script></p> <a target="_blank" href="http://our.componentone.com/groups/">Product Support Forum</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://feedback.componentone.com/forums/272000-wpf-and-silverlight-documentation">Documentation Feedback</a> </div> </body> </html>