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Code Only – Further Enhancements
12 October 09 06:31 PM | efdesign | 26 Comments   

We’ve come a long way since the last post on Code-Only . So it’s high time for another update. We’ve been working really hard on Code-Only revving the design, and spotting missing capabilities and responding to feedback both internal and external etc. Read More...

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Extending the Entity Framework Provider Model to support DDL
06 October 09 07:24 PM | efdesign | 6 Comments   

As part of the first previews of Code-Only we shared some code to create a database: // Create a context using code-only using (var mycontext = builder.Create(dbConnection)) {     // Create the database if it doesn’t already exist     Read More...

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Code Only Enhancements
03 August 09 11:11 PM | efdesign | 30 Comments   

We've been working hard on Code Only since the first preview . In the next release you will be able to specify: Navigation Property Inverses. Property Facets, like Nullability , MaxLength , Precision etc. Property to Column mappings Type to Table(s) mappings Read More...

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Code Only
10 June 09 09:04 PM | efdesign | 27 Comments   

There are currently two ways to get Entity Framework apps up and running, we call these Database First and Model First respectively. Database First has been with us since .NET 3.5 SP1, and involves reverse engineering an Entity Data Model from an existing Read More...

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