ASP.NET and Entity Framework in Layered Architecture - using Entity Framework for ORM only

Question

I have an ASP.NET application that uses a layered architecture e.g. presentation layer, business logic layer, data access layer.

I don\'t want to the business layer to h

Answer 1

Another way to do this is to use mapper classes, use what EF purely as data access and use the classes EF generated only within the DAL, then map these DAL objects to your BLL's objects through mappers. It works fine for us.