Book Image

Mastering Entity Framework

By : Rahul Rajat Singh
Book Image

Mastering Entity Framework

By: Rahul Rajat Singh

Overview of this book

<p>Data access is an integral part of any software application. Entity Framework provides a model-based system that makes data access effortless for developers by freeing you from writing similar data access code for all of your domain models.</p> <p>Mastering Entity Framework provides you with a range of options when developing a data-oriented application. You’ll get started by managing the database relationships as Entity relationships and perform domain modeling using Entity Framework. You will then explore how you can reuse data access layer code such as stored procedures and table-valued functions, and perform various typical activities such as validations and error handling. You’ll learn how to retrieve data by querying the Entity Data Model and understand how to use LINQ to Entities and Entity SQL to query the Entity Data Model.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Entity Framework
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. Implementing a Small Blogging Platform Using Entity Framework

Now that we have seen how to use Entity Framework in our applications, let's try to create the data access layer for a complete application using Entity Framework to see all of the concepts in action. We will try to build a simple blogging platform and will use Entity Framework for data access. We will use the Entity Framework Code First approach for this application. First, we will take a look at the requirements for our application. We will then try to visualize the data access needs of the application. We will then create POCO entities for our models, and see how we can perform various data access operations using the Entity Framework's Code First approach.