Tip of the Week No.19 – What is the Database First Workflow in Entity Framework?

Check our Tip of the Week, where this week, we discuss about the Database First workflow in Entity Framework. Tip of the Week #19 Based on the Database First workflow in Entity Framework, you create an Entity Data Model (EDM) by reverse-engineering an existing database. The workflow is: You first create a new .NET application … Read more…

What Entity Framework Core is and How to Enable it in your C# Projects in Visual Studio

In this article, you will learn what Entity Framework Core is and how to enable it in your C# Projects in Visual Studio. Entity Framework Core, is the Cross-Platform version of ADO .NET Entity Framework. In one of my older articles, I have provided an introduction to Entity Framework. Entity Framework Core, as mentioned above, is its … Read more…

Working with Entity Framework 6.3 and .NET Core 3.0

In May 2019, Microsoft announced that the first preview of Entity Framework 6.3 was available on NuGet. Entity Framework 6.3 will be the first version of Entity Framework 6 that can run on .NET Core and therefore, work cross-platform. This development, will make it easier to migrate existing applications that use Entity Framework 6 to .NET Core 3.0. … Read more…

Featured Online Course – Entity Framework: Getting Started (Complete Beginners Guide)

Hi folks! I’m pleased to announce that my new online course Entity Framework: Getting Started (Complete Beginners Guide) is now available! This is a comprehensive course on Entity Framework and SQL Server data access. Read on the learn more about the course!   What is this Course all About? Entity Framework is an Object-Relational Mapper … Read more…

Infographic: An Introduction to Entity Framework

Hi friends! In this post, I’m sharing with you a useful infographic I created for my Online Course “Entity Framework: Getting Started (Complete Beginners Guide)“. This infographic, provides a quick overview of the Entity Framework in .NET, it describes what it is, how it works and what are its workflows that allow you to build … Read more…

Screencast: Using Inheritance in the ADO .NET Entity Framework

Welcome to another screencast dedicated to SQL Server 2008 Programmability! This screencast again features the ADO .NET Entity Framework. The screencast demonstrates how the developer can create an entity data model in Visual Studio 2008, and goes one step further, thus demonstrating a simple way of using inheritance in the entity data model.   Watch … Read more…

Screencast: How to Create an Entity Data Model

Welcome to my first screencast dedicate to SQL Server 2008 Programmability! This screencast features the ADO .NET Entity Framework; a new feature of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 providing the developer with fast, robust and scalable data access. SQL Server 2008 fully supports the ADO .NET Entity Framework, allowing developers to effortlessly create entity data models … Read more…

The Entity Framework – Part 2 – Inheritance

As promised on my previous Entity Framework-related post I will try through a series of posts which will contain examples, to talk about the ADO. NET Entity Framework and all the cool features it provides the developer with. This post discusses Inheritance in ADO .NET Entity Framework. Inheritance allows creating entities having as base type … Read more…

The ADO .NET Entity Framework

This article, in an introduction to ADO .NET Entity Framework, Entity Data Model and gives an overview of this great technology.   The Problem ADO .NET Entity Framework Solves During the development cycle of a database application, the developer may face issues having to do with the fact that the logical (relational) and related infrastructure … Read more…