What you’ll need

You don’t need much to get started. This book, of course. (You did buy this copy, didn’t you?) And a copy of Visual Studio. You’ll also need something to write with, because not all of the exercises are done at the computer, and you might want a notebook of some kind if you don’t like writing in books.

Getting visual studio

You can use this book with any version of Visual Studio 2012, including the Express versions, or with any version of Visual Studio 2010 except the Express Versions (they don’t support NuGet, which you’ll need to download the latest version of Entity Framework).

If don’t have any version of Visual Studio, you can use one of the free Express editions. You can download them from the Microsoft website. Here’s ...

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