>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I am watching one of the Pluralsight courses on EF (by Julie Lerman). The first thing she creates is a class project with a file .classes where she writes 3 classes (Ninja, Clan, NinjaEquipment).
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>>>>Does it mean that when I prepare
my application database to be used with EF I have to create a similar class library classes.cs with a class for each of the tables in my database?
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>>>Depends. Sounds like she is doing 'code first' - in which case .NET will create the required tables in SQL based on the classes.
>>>For an existing database the alternative is to simply add an Entity Data Model to the project and specify which tables you want to use - that will create the classes for you.
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>>I will be starting my work with EF using EF 7 that not longer has Data Model. So I will have to either write the classes by hand or use some 3P tool to generate the code based on my database. This is my understanding. Am I wrong?
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>If you're using EF7 then, yes, I believe you are right. Haven't used it - my stuff is still in EF6.
I figured if I start I might as well start with the latest version. Will see how far it will take me :). Thank you.
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