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Code-First Development with Entity Framework

By : Sergey Barskiy
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Code-First Development with Entity Framework

By: Sergey Barskiy

Overview of this book

<p>Entity Framework Code-First enables developers to read and write data in a relational database system using C# or VB.NET. It is Microsoft's answer to demand for an ORM from .NET developers.</p> <p>This book will help you acquire the necessary skills to program your applications using Entity Framework. You will start with database configuration and learn how to write classes that define the database structure. You will see how LINQ can be used with Entity Framework to give you access to stored data. You will then learn how to use Entity Framework to persist information in a Relational Database Management System. You will also see how you can benefit from writing ORM-based .NET code. Finally, you will learn how Entity Framework can help you to solve database deployment problems using migrations.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Code-First Development with Entity Framework
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a new project that uses Entity Framework


First of all, it is important to understand how Entity Framework is distributed. Even though it is an open source project, Microsoft employees curate the project as well as write the lion's share of all the code. You can actually download the source code from CodePlex at https://entityframework.codeplex.com/. However, the easiest way to add this technology to your project is to use NuGet. The NuGet technology allows anyone to create useful libraries and publish them on the web to let other developers take advantage of it. Microsoft is in charge of publishing Entity Framework on the NuGet website. The package is simply called Entity Framework. In addition to the core Entity Framework, it also contains the Entity Framework provider for SQL Server. We will work with the latest version of it. You can add it to any .NET project. Let's just create a Console Application for our project first, and then add the Entity Framework package to it. Create...