EntityFramework and ADO.NET together?

Question

Is there a reason why I couldn't use both EF and ADO.NET in my solution? The latter to handle the more intensive database calls that require faster processing, yet EF for the ORM benefits (code first)???

Answer 1

There might be a misunderstanding, the EF and ADO.NET are actually working together. Look at the overview MSDN

Also a post that shows usage of stored procedure starting from EF4: A big step for Stored Procedures in EF4