.Net ORM with the fastest learning curve?

Question

A little briefing first; I've been a Delphi person for years, and been away from C# for two years. The last thing I've done in C# was a mid scale DB app with my own custom DAL. Ie, I had coded my own functions to retrieve data as list, functions to append data and so on. Now I am offered a small to mid scale project using C# WinForms and SQL Server, and there's a deadline which is about 2 or 3 weeks. Note that I forgot LINQ syntax and lots of things.

Now, which ORM would be easiest and fastest to learn? I can cope with not using business abstraction layer if need be, to gain time that is. I need something that'll ease manual labour. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For quick-to-implement etc, I'd look at LINQ-to-SQL; the jury is still out on who considers it to be full ORM, but tbh I don't care; it lets me map my data quickly, simply, conveniently and safely, with decent IDE/language support. The LINQ you generally need is pretty minimal... from, where, select, etc. And setting it up is just a case of telling the designer about the tables/columns vs clases/properties.

Answer 2

If I were you I would go for Entity framework. It's pretty simple,easy to implement, efficient and successful ORM tool. You can use LINQ as well in the entity framework while retrieving the data.