Tuning your Entity Framework data access code for performance

For the past couple of years, my choice of database access technology in many different types of .NET applications has been Entity Framework. No, I'm not saying Entity Framework is the only option, nor is it always the best solution, but oftentimes, it's a convenient and useful technology that can save you a lot of development time.

Now, in all automatically working wrapper classes (which Entity Framework more or less is from 10,000 feet) performance is a question. I've been happy with Entity Framework's performance, but then again, the way you write your code will have a big impact on the performance you see.

If you are looking into improving your data access performance and you are using Entity Framework, be sure to step by the topic titled "Performance Considerations" on MSDN.