Getting Started with the Entity Framework
Entity Framework
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The Entity Framework enables developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational storage schema. You can define your model based on a database, or define your model and then create a database using ADO.NET Entity Data Model Tools or Code First development. For more information, see Entity Framework.
The following are tutorials, walkthroughs, and white papers that can help you to quickly start using the Entity Framework:
- Quickstart: Creating a Model with Code First
- A walkthrough that demonstrates how to create a model by using Code First development.
- Quickstart: Creating a Model from an Existing Database with Entity Designer
- A walkthrough that demonstrates how to create a model by using Model First development with the tools.
- Querying Data (Entity Framework)
- Demonstrates how to query a conceptual model and work with object data.
- Binding Objects to Controls (Entity Framework)
- Contains an overview and walkthroughs that describe how to work with the Entity Framework and data binding applications.
- Entity Framework and SQL Azure
- Demonstrates how to create an Entity Data Model directly from a SQL Azure database as well as create a SQL Azure database by using Model First development and the EDM Designer.
- Creating an Entity Framework Data Model for an ASP.NET MVC Application
- Demonstrates how to create ASP.NET MVC applications using the Entity Framework.
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