ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer Scenarios

The topics in this section describe how to use the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer in common application scenarios.

In This Section

• Creating an Application Using an Entity Data Model
  Provides a link to the Entity Framework Quickstart topics. These topics guide you through building the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Mapping Inheritance - Table-per-Hierarchy
  Guides you through implementing table-per-hierarchy inheritance in the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Mapping Inheritance - Table-per-Type
  Guides you through implementing table-per-type inheritance in the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Mapping an Entity to Multiple Tables
  Guides you through mapping an entity type to two tables in the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Mapping an Entity to Stored Procedures
  Guides you through mapping the insert, update, and delete operations of an entity type to stored procedures in the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Retrieving Entity Types with a Stored Procedure
  Guides you through creating a function import from a stored procedure and using it to retrieve a collection of entity types.

• Walkthrough: Using Entities with a Local Database Cache
  Guides you through creating an application that uses a local database cache for local data storage and synchronizes with a remote database.

• Using the Entity Designer with ASP.NET
  Provides an overview of supported ASP.NET project types and a walkthrough of creating an ASP.NET Web Application.

Related Sections

Entity Data Model Tools Tasks

See Also

Other Resources

Entity Framework Tasks
Application Scenarios (Entity Framework)