Getting Started with Entity Framework 5

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Course Summary

This course provides an introduction to using Entity Framework 5 with Visual Studio 2012

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Course Description

Entity Framework is Microsoft's Data Access platform for .NET development. This course will introduce you to the key concepts and behaviours of using the Entity Framework from designing models, writing data access code and integrating Entity Framework into your software solutions. If you have never used Entity Framework, start here with Visual Studio 2012 and Entity Framework 5. Developers with experience with earlier versions of EF can find useful information throughout about new designer features introduced in Visual Studio 2012 as well new modeling capabilities and API features provided in Entity Framework 5.

Course Description

Entity Framework is Microsoft's Data Access platform for .NET development. This course will introduce you to the key concepts and behaviours of using the Entity Framework from designing models, writing data access code and integrating Entity Framework into your software solutions. If you have never used Entity Framework, start here with Visual Studio 2012 and Entity Framework 5. Developers with experience with earlier versions of EF can find useful information throughout about new designer features introduced in Visual Studio 2012 as well new modeling capabilities and API features provided in Entity Framework 5.

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Course Syllabus

Entity Framework 5: Planning Ahead
- 25m 15s

—Introduction 0m 17s
—Objectives 0m 57s
—Why Entity Framework 2m 28s
—EF's Conceptual Model 6m 28s
—EF's Basic Workflow 1m 56s
—What's new in EF5 2m 42s
—Upgrading EF4 Projects 6m 5s
—Choosing DB First, Model First or Code First 1m 54s
—What's Coming in EF6 1m 36s
—Summary 0m 36s
—Resources 0m 16s

Entity Framework 5: Database First Modeling
- 52m 10s

—Introduction 0m 14s
—Outline 0m 56s
—Creating and inspecting the model and it's generated code 15m 58s
—Model to Database Mappings 3m 2s
—Adding Color to Model Entities in the Designer 1m 39s
—Using Diagrams to Visually Break up your Model in the Designer 6m 9s
—Updating Your Model when the Database Changes 4m 36s
—More on Stored Procedure Modeling 7m 27s
—Using Enums with your Entity Data Model 6m 3s
—Using Spatial (Geography or Geometry) in your Model 1m 38s
—Fixing Up the Keys of Entities that Map to Views 3m 24s
—Summary 0m 55s
—References 0m 9s

Entity Framework 5: Model First Modeling
- 39m 3s

—Introduction 0m 13s
—Why Model First 0m 39s
—Outline 0m 57s
—Creating a Model and your First Entity 4m 7s
—Properties and Attributes of Entity Properties 1m 56s
—Controlling Strings in Entities and Database Tables 2m 8s
—Default Values, Spatial Data and Enums 3m 53s
—Adding Relationships 6m 20s
—Many to Many Relationships 2m 25s
—Entity Container Properties 3m 38s
—Generating the Database Schema 7m 27s
—When the Model or Database Changes 1m 39s
—Using Color and Diagrams to Visually Separate your Model 2m 26s
—Summary 0m 58s
—References 0m 11s

Entity Framework 5: Code First Modeling
- 49m 10s

—Introduction 0m 49s
—Why Code First? 1m 29s
—Outline 0m 55s
—The Domain Classes 3m 8s
—Creating a DbContext Data Layer 5m 42s
—Building, Debugging and Fixing the Code First Model with Configurations 8m 56s
—Initializing a Database from the Model 6m 12s
—Using Migrations to Update Database Schema when the Model Changes 5m 38s
—Seeding a Database During a Migration 4m 15s
—Using Data Annotations to Configure Mappings 2m 27s
—Configuring Mappings with the Fluent API 6m 20s
—Reverse Engineering a Database for Code First 2m 13s
—Summary 0m 57s
—References 0m 9s

Entity Framework 5: Interacting with Your Data Model
- 41m 45s

—Introduction 0m 12s
—The DbContext API 1m 41s
—Outline 0m 31s
—Your First Queries 5m 48s
—Inserting, Updating and Deleting Data 6m 35s
—Building and Inserting Graphs 7m 50s
—Querying with LINQ Expressions or Methods 0m 59s
—Loading Related Data 8m 38s
—Working with Stored Procedures 8m 24s
—Summary 0m 56s
—References 0m 11s

Entity Framework 5: Using EF in Your Solutions
- 56m 28s

—Introduction 0m 14s
—Outline 1m 15s
—Separating Generated Domain Classes from EDMX 8m 37s
—Adding Logic to Generated Code using Partial Classes 3m 51s
—Overriding SaveChanges 7m 17s
—Building a Repository to Access your DbContext 5m 49s
—Using your EF Data Layer in a Client App (WPF): Modifying the classes 7m 42s
—Using your EF Data Layer in a Client App (WPF): The tweaked repository 4m 14s
—Using your EF Data Layer in a Client App (WPF): Debugging and Profiling 5m 14s
—Using your EF Data Layer in a Web App (ASP.NET MVC4) 6m 22s
—Accessing your Data from Mobile Apps 4m 20s
—Summary 1m 18s
—References 0m 15s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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Getting Started with Entity Framework 5

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Entity Framework

Visual Studio

Application Program Interface (API)

Debugging

Workflow

Web application (Web app)

Stored procedure

Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

DOT NET (.NET)

Active Server Page (ASP)

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