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Entity Framework Tutorial (Update) - Second Edition

By : Joydip Kanjilal
Book Image

Entity Framework Tutorial (Update) - Second Edition

By: Joydip Kanjilal

Overview of this book

The ADO.NET Entity Framework from Microsoft is a new ADO.NET development framework that provides a level of abstraction for data access strategies and solves the impedance mismatch issues that exist between different data models This book explores Microsoft’s Entity Framework and explains how it can used to build enterprise level applications. It will also teach you how you can work with RESTful Services and Google’s Protocol Buffers with Entity Framework and WCF. You will explore how to use Entity Framework with ASP.NET Web API and also how to consume the data exposed by Entity Framework from client applications of varying types, i.e., ASP.NET MVC, WPF and Silverlight. You will familiarize yourself with the new features and improvements introduced in Entity Framework including enhanced POCO support, template-based code generation, tooling consolidation and connection resiliency. By the end of the book, you will be able to successfully extend the new functionalities of Entity framework into your project.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Entity Framework Tutorial Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing CRUD operations on objects


In this section, we will discuss how you can use Object Services to add, modify, and delete an object within ObjectContext.

Adding an object to the ObjectContext class requires the use of the AddObject method. It accepts the entity set name and entity instance as parameters and adds the object passed to it to the ObjectContext class. Once you have added an object to the ObjectContext class, you can call SaveChanges to persist the changes to the database.

Here is an example that shows how you can add an object to the ObjectContext class and then call the SaveChanges method to persist the changes to the database:

SecurityDBEntities dbContext = new SecurityDBEntities();

            using (ObjectContext objectContext = 
            ((IObjectContextAdapter)dbContext).ObjectContext)
            {
                UserLoginHistoryvar userLoginHistory = new 
                UserLoginHistory();

                userLoginHistory.UserID = 1;
                userLoginHistory...