Entity Framework 6.1, (Part 4 of 6): ORM and Entities

We’ll start the course with a look at how you can customize an entity data model to make it easier for application developers to use its entity objects. The model designer in Visual Studio has plenty of options for refining a model, as well as make it easier to work with large, complex models with hundreds of entities. To finish up you’ll also learn some best practices of model design, so that you can build robust applications that take full advantage of the right Entity Framework infrastructure.

Lesson 1:

• The Power of ORM
• Demo: New Class Library Project
• Demo: Entity Data Model Wizard
• Demo: The Entity Data Model.

Lesson 2:

• Demo: Organize the Data Model
• Demo: Menus
• Demo: Menus (cont.)
• Creating Sub Diagrams
• Demo: Sub Diagrams
• Demo: Sub Diagrams (cont.)
• Demo: Colors
• Default Values
• Demo: Default Values
• Demo: Default Values (cont.).

Lesson 3:

• Cleaning Up the Model
• Entities
• Demo: Cleaning Up - Entities
• Demo: Clean Up - View Entities
• Entity Properties
• Demo: Scalar Properties
• Demo: Scalar (cont.)
• Demo: �Application� Names.

Lesson 4:

• Demo: Navigation Properties
• Demo: Multiple Relationships
• Demo: Self Joins.