entity framework design

Question

User680737545 posted

Hi

I've started reading up on entity frameworks and am little confused after going through so many articles. I'd like to mix entity framework into my project in an 3-tier architecture model.

It appears entity framework is mainly used in the business layer to represent entities in the database as this would replace the traditional custom class mapping. I've downloaded a sample solution and it has a model like the following:

UI -- > Business Components --> Business Entities (Entity Framework) --> DAL (which has a reference to the Busines Entities project and it uses the Business Entitiy solution to process database transactions.

Is this the correct approach? If this model is correct, does the entity framework model replace the traditional DAL approach as the Business Entities (Entity Framework) has methods to perform insert, update and delete operations.

I've read articles which talks about entitiy framework being used in the DAL, are they referring to the approach above?

Please do not refer me to other articles as the more i read the more confused i get.

Thanks Heaps.