posted 1/25/2011 by Bevans - Views: [426]
The entity framework is an object relational mapper. What is that? Well it provides an abstraction with database development. By pretty much automatically handling database calls and object persistence without the developer having to worry about the details. By generating both the objects and handling persistence it takes a tremendous load off the developer. But quickly I wanted to mention one cool feature in 4.0, which is Dynamic Entities. With the new dynamic CLR improvements in 4.0, it easly allows the dynamic creation of object giving even more flexibility to the framework. Read More Here
To get started with showing some of the capabilities I wanted to show how to create begin.
This will give us a blank project to play around with. By clicking the toolbar you can add entities by simply dragging from the toolbar. After that by simply right clicking over the object and selecting “Update Model from Database…” you can quickly generate object based on ado.net connections. Making it easy to build customers or user objects with just a few clicks.
More Coming Shortly..
Looking forward to learn more on this :)