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  • Entity Framework 4 “Code-First”: Custom Database Schema Mapping

    Entity Framework 4 “Code-First”: Custom Database Schema Mapping

    Jul 10
    23

    Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Develop without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file Define model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without explicitly configuring a...

  • Entity Framework 4 “Code-First” - Custom Database Schema Mapping

    Entity Framework 4 “Code-First” - Custom Database Schema Mapping

    Jul 10
    23

    Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Develop without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file Define model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without explicitly configuring a...

  • Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4

    Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4

    Jul 10
    16

    .NET 4 ships with a new and much improved version of Entity Framework (EF) – a data access and OR/M library that lives within the System.Data.Entity namespace. When Entity Framework was first introduced with .NET 3.5 SP1, developers provided a lot of feedback on things they thought were missing or incomplete with that first release. The SQL team did a good job of listening to this feedback, and really focused the EF that ships with .NET 4 on addressing it. Some of the big improvements in EF...

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