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Entity Framework Tutorial (Update)

You're reading from   Entity Framework Tutorial (Update) A comprehensive guide to the Entity Framework with insight into its latest features and optimizations for responsive data access in your projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783550012
Length 274 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Joydip Kanjilal Joydip Kanjilal
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing the ADO.NET Entity Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started 3. Entities, Relationships, and the Entity Data Model 4. Working with Stored Procedures in the Entity Data Model 5. Working with Entity Client and Entity SQL 6. Working with LINQ to Entities 7. Working with the Object Services Layer 8. Working with WCF Data Services A. Advanced Concepts Index

Chapter 3. Entities, Relationships, and the Entity Data Model

In the last chapter, you learned how we can get started using Entity Framework. As I mentioned in the earlier chapter, Entity Framework 7 is not yet released at the time of writing. So, we will discuss Entity Framework 6.x in this book and highlight the features of Entity Framework 7 wherever applicable.

In this chapter, you will learn about the Entity Data Model and its components. The Entity Data Model is a conceptual model that can be used to design the data access layer of your application. We will revisit the Security EDM we created in the previous chapter and discuss each of the sections. Specifically, we will discuss the following points:

  • Entities, entity types, and relationships
  • Introducing the Entity Data Model (EDM)
  • The goals of EDM
  • CSDL, MSL, and SSDL
  • Customizing entities
  • Customizing the EDM
  • Exception handling with Entity Framework

In this chapter, we will discuss each of the sections of the EDM in detail. We will...

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