MVC in ASP.NET part 2

clipped from weblogs.asp.net The ASP.NET MVC Framework enables you to use any data access pattern or framework you want in order to retrieve and manage your models.  If you want to use ADO.NET DataSets/DataReaders (or abstractions built on top of them) you can.  If you prefer to use an object relational mapper (ORM) like NHibernate, LLBLGen, WilsonORMapper, LINQ to SQL/LINQ to Entities you can absolutely use those as well. For our e-commerce sample application I'm going to use the built-in LINQ to SQL ORM shipped in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008.  You can learn more about LINQ to SQL from my ongoing blog tutorial series that covers it (in particular make sure to check out my Part1, Part2, Part3 and Part4 posts).  Mapping URL Parameters to Controller Action Methods