Visual Studio Magazine

Creating the Right Database Initializer for Entity Framework

For example, the default option is to create a database initializer class that inherits from CreateDatabaseIfNotExists. With this option the first line of code that accesses the database triggers the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Free Tool: Let Entity Framework Generate Your Code-First Entities

Like everyone else, I like code-first Entity Framework (EF) development because it makes it so easy to integrate custom code with my EF entity code. But even in a pure code-first development, I ...
InfoWorld

How to use the DbContext in Entity Framework Core

Take advantage of the DbContext in Entity Framework Core to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using CLR objects Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an open-source object-relational mapper, ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft open-sources Entity Framework

Microsoft on Thursday released code for its Entity Framework database mapping tool via open source in an effort to increase transparency. The move is being handled by Microsoft Open Technologies, a ...