Visual Studio Magazine

Entity Framework Gets Code First Model Generation Through Reverse Engineering

Microsoft last week released a minor version update of its popular Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tool with numerous bug fixes and new features, including the ability to reverse engineer an existing ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Creating Master/Detail and Update Pages with Entity Framework

In previous columns ("Integrating Entity Framework with an ASP.NET Web Site," "Extending an Entity Framework Model -- and Some Limitations" and "Using the Entity Model to Create an ASP.NET Page"), ...
InfoWorld

Demystifying the Code First approach in EF Core

When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...
InfoWorld

How to work with EF Core migrations in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of migrations in EF Core to manage database schema changes over time and keep them in sync with the data models of your ASP.NET Core applications. An object-database mapper for .NET ...