Entity Framework gets blamed for a lot of things: being slow, generating terrible SQL, and not being fit for serious applications.

Peter Kruis and Tonie Huizer are here to be honest: most of the time, Entity Framework is not the real problem.

In this demo-heavy session, they will take the kind of code developers write every day and push it straight into disaster. N+1 queries, lazy loading in the wrong places, oversized includes, missing indexes, zero profiling, and complete trust in whatever SQL happens to come out the other end. In other words: bad bad bad practices, live on stage.

Step by step, Peter and Tonie will show how innocent-looking C# can turn into painfully inefficient database behavior, why performance problems often come from usage rather than the framework itself, and how quickly the truth appears once you stop guessing and start looking under the hood.

And since blaming Entity Framework only works until the evidence shows up, Peter and Tonie will reveal their secret weapon: a merciless look beneath the surface that exposes exactly where things go off the rails. The generated SQL does not lie. It simply shines a very uncomfortable spotlight on the shortcuts, assumptions, and bad habits developers usually hope stay hidden.

Expect sharp examples, live demos, ugly code, hard lessons, and practical takeaways to help you write faster, cleaner, and far less embarrassing data access code.

Because sometimes using EF is just fine.
You’re just using it wrong.