Thank you for your suggestion. I did see the EF Code First example in the tutorial. I will check out the Music Store tutorial too. And I will try the SqlDataSource approach that William suggested.
>MVC3 does not require LINQ nor EF. I suggest you take another look at EF, particularly Code First EF (which is what MVC3 uses by default), as it is greatly simplified from the earlier versions.
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>With Code First, you define a class for each table (one property per column), the Context (basically a database manager -- one line of code per table), and then instantiate the Context where needed, then make calls to do CRUD. It's VERY easy.
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>MVC3 is pretty easy. I use it with EF Code First. You can try the Music Store walk through tutorial (
http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials) to see how it all works.
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>>I have been watching the Pluralsight Tutorials on ASP.NET MVC 3 and I am totally confused to the direction I want to following. It looks like (from the little I understood) that ASP.NET MVC 3 "suggesting" (or maybe even requires) to use the Entity Framework and LINQ. Of course I don't quite understand these technologies and also find them very complicated.
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>>A couple of years ago I created a small WinForms app using strongly typed dataset approach. It was slow to understand back then but it was less complicated (I think) and I had more control.
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>>So now I am not sure which direction I should follow when building a small ASP.NET application. The application (as the starting point) will be performing the following:
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>>1. Get a data set from the SQL Server database.
>>2. Display the data in the grid view.
>>3. Allow user to switch to a detailed view (where fields are in textbox controls).
>>4. Allow user to make changes and save (when click on Save button) the changes to the database.
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>>Any suggestions to which approach you like? TIA.
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