ADO.NET Entity Framework vs NHibernate

Question

So the ADO.NET Entity Framework has gotten a little bit of bad press (in the form of blog entries and a petition) but I don\'t want to rush to judgement. I\'m limited in tim

Answer 1

Microsoft have all but admitted that the ADO.Net Entity Framework isn't an ORM (I can't find a reference currently). So if you think of the Entity Framework as a query engine then apparently it is really good at what it does. For a complete ORM solution you might want to look elsewhere however.

The following blog post seems to bear out this difference:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/archive/2008/05/17/why-use-the-entity-framework.aspx