Developers spend too much time writing view, stored procedures and setting relationships and worrying about their backend

The Entity Framework is designed to enable developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational storage schema.

We can focus on the task of writing our applications, rather than accessing the data.

Applications can work in terms of a more application-centric conceptual model, including types with inheritance, complex members, and relationships.

• Applications are freed from hard-coded dependencies on a particular data engine or storage schema.
• Mappings between the conceptual model and the storage-specific schema can change without changing the application code.
• Developers can work with a consistent application object model that can be mapped to various storage schemas, possibly implemented in different database management systems.
• Multiple conceptual models can be mapped to a single storage schema.
• Language-integrated query support provides compile-time syntax validation for queries against a conceptual model.
• Adding functionality to a pre-built is relatively seamless.