MVC With EF OR MVC with enterprise-library which 1 better

Question

Hi
we are create a large application (online shopping) on mvc-5
but we are little bit confuse which approach
we are use in this project mvc with Entityframework or MVC with enterprise-library

plesase suggest me or why?

Thanks

Francis · Answer

Enterprise library is a combination of reusable classes that will perform the .Net to SQL operation in a faster manner. Enterprise library relay on ADO.Net mostly. On the other hand EF is an ORM tool. However still there is a debate between ADO.Net and EF among the .Net community. However EF is build on the top of ADO.Net. As per my knowledge EF will give some more advantage over ADO.Net (in terms of maintainability etc). So i suggest go with EF. Also as a positive side i would recommend these realworld case studies in EF provided by MS. Hope this helps!

Francis · Answer

If our reply is helpful accept that one as answer. That will also helpful to others.:)

Amit Shrivastava · Answer

Thanks all of you for your support

Sujeet Suman · Answer

Enterprise Library:- It is a collection of reusable software component designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges. Entity Framework:- is an object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that developers usually need to write. So as per my knowledge & understanding if you needed to persist data to a persistent store then you should use Enterprise Library otherwise Entity Framework id good.

Samir Bhogayta · Answer

Hi.. It's depend on the database if your database is very large then I suggest Enterprise-library otherwise you can use Entityframework. Because due to some technical point of view and also about the speed of application is low if the database is large and you use EF. Thanks SAMIR