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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

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how to use the Entity Framework Code First approach to use domain entities in our application and persist data in the database. We also looked at how to manage multiplicity relationships between entities, and use Entity Framework to map these relationships to the database. We also looked at how to use Entity Framework to manage entities involved in inheritance relationships and create the desired schema for these entities. In the next chapter, we will see how we can manage the database creation process, and insert some dummy data into the database.