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Classes for EF - newbie question
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Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
Entity Framework
Environment versions
Environment:
C# 4.0
OS:
Windows 10
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
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Thread ID:
01628544
Message ID:
01628559
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48
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>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).
>>>
>>>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?
>>
>>That is the code first approach, which I think is stupid - database first is my motto. Look for generators to create such classes from your DB.
>
>I believe that EF 7 done away with the model database first and left only code first model. I understand your suggestion of not wasting time of writing a bunch of code but rather have a tool to do it for you. I will look for the 3P tool to generate such code. But my question was more academic, is such a classes.cs with all classes "matching" my tables required for EF?
>Thank you.

I suggest you to look at Reverse POCO generator by Simon Hudges https://efreversepoco.codeplex.com/ We're using it in our current project. Every time you make changes in your database, you simply run the tool to re-generate the classes. In our application we have 2 projects. One is the Data project that contains configurations for each table/view, the other is Models which contains a single class file for each table/view. That project is quite flexible and allows you to generate all you need.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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