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April 12, 2010 Predecessor: .NET Framework 3.5 Successor: .NET Framework 4.5

Added as a core library to help developers build pluggable and easily extensible applications. Legacy Support and Visual Studio 2022 net. framework 4.0

While part of the broader .NET umbrella, Entity Framework 4 was a massive upgrade for data access. It introduced "Model-First" development and, crucially, support. This allowed developers to use standard classes without inheriting from heavy framework base classes, making code cleaner, more testable, and decoupled from the database. April 12, 2010 Predecessor:

The release of .NET 4.0 coincided with Visual Studio 2010. Together, they empowered developers with several language-specific enhancements: This allowed developers to use standard classes without

Organizations still running applications on 4.0 are encouraged to migrate to at least (the final version supported on Windows 7) or, preferably, .NET 6/8 (the modern, cross-platform evolution of the framework).