[ACCEPTED]-Differences between ASP.NET MVC framework and Entity Framework-entity-framework

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You can't compare them. These are 2 different 5 things.

Entity framework is ORM mapper, Asp.Net 4 Mvc is a framework that helps building web 3 applications.

Actually - they even aren't 2 mutually exclusive and you can use them 1 both together quite nicely.

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MVC is an architectural pattern to build 4 applications; entity framework is a object 3 relational mapping framework. Quite different 2 animals.

And yes, they can be used together, no 1 problem.

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ADO.NET Entity Framework is an object-relational 4 mapping (ORM) framework for the .NET Framework. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADO.NET_Entity_Framework http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa697427(VS.80).aspx

Other 3 entitty frameworks are -> LINQtoSQL, NHibernate 2 etc.

Model–View–Controller (MVC) is an architectural 1 pattern used in software engineering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET_MVC_Framework

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They're different things entirely.

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Although they're different things entirely 2 they are compatible. I am using both frameworks 1 on a project now.

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You can use both of them into a single project.

Entity 8 framework is object-relational mapping (ORM) framework. It 7 is an enhancement to ADO.NET that gives 6 developers an automated mechanism for 5 accessing & storing the data in the 4 database.

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is 3 an architectural pattern that separates an 2 application into three main logical components: the 1 model, the view, and the controller.