Creating the Repository
The first step to creating a repository is to create a class that drives the Entity Framework to connect to our database and use our model types to represent records. There are lots of different ways to do this, but I like to use a separate class that I think of as an adapter between the repository class and the Entity Framework.
Creating the Entity Framework Adapter
Create a new class in the Models/Domain/Repository folder called EFAdapter and set its contents to match Listing 24-1.
Listing 24-1. The EFAdapter class
class EFAdapter : DbContext {
public EFAdapter(string connectionName)
: base(connectionName) {
// do nothing
}
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