In my earlier post, We had seen the Review of Chapter 1 in the book “Entity Framework Tutorial” written by Joydip Kanjilal. In this post, let us see what Chapter 2 and 3 have in store for us.
Book : Entity Framework
Author: Joydip Kandilal
Publisher: PACKT publishing (http://www.packtpub.com/)
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Pages: 37-57
The second chapter begins with how to create an ADO.NET Entity Data Model in Visual Studio using Entity Data Model Wizard with step by step instruction and screen-shots. It also describes the alternate way of generating Entity Data Model from the database using the EDMGen.exe command line tool. There is a table which describes the different command line switches of EDM Gen.exe and their purpose.
ADO.NET Entity Data Source Control is then introduced. A sample application is implemented with Entity Data Source Control and GridView to load the data from the Database and display it in a screen.
Chapter 3: Entities, Relationships and Entity Data Model
Pages: 59-84
The third Chapter deals with the Entity Data Model. In Chapter 3, we can learn
- What is Entity
- What is Entity Set
- How to define Entity Types and how they can be derived
- What is Relationship and what are the relationships that can be defined in Entity Data Model
- What are Entity Containers
- What does Mapping Details Window in Visual Studio represent?
- What does the Model Browser window in Visual Studio represent?
- How to define CSDL schema layer?
- How to define SSDL schema layer?
- How to define MSL schema layer?
It then explores the Entity Data Model created in the previous chapter for all these concepts.
Happy Reading and Happy Coding!!!
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