This section describes ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities. Entity Framework is a framework for providing object-relational mapping service on data models.

This section contains these topics:

• Overview of Entity Framework

• Language Integrated Query and Entity SQL

• Mapping Oracle Data Types to EDM Types

• Oracle Number Default Data Type Mapping and Customization

• Migrating Existing Entity Framework 5 Applications to Entity Framework 6

• Code First

• Unsupported Entity Framework Features