There are three approaches to model your entities in Entity Framework: Code First, Model First, and Database first. This article discusses all these three approaches and their pros and cons ...

Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ADO.Net that simplifies data access in your application by allowing you to write code to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and ...

Entity Framework (EF) 6.1 is the first ".x" update since Microsoft open sourced the tool moving to version 6 and moved it to CodePlex. It features tooling consolidation that "extends the ADO.NET ...

You can rapidly develop your database design in SQL Management Studio then generate the code model in just few clicks. More recently I’ve come to prefer #1 (or #2) for the following reasons. 1 ...

This time, I added an ADO.NET Entity Data Model named Northwind.edmx and, once my .EDMX file was added (and opened), I right-clicked on its design surface and selected "Update Model from Database." In ...