Adding entities
At its simplest, creating a new instance of an entity is like creating a new instance of any .NET object: You simply call a constructor.
There’s nothing special about creating an entity instance. You’ve been doing it all along by calling its constructor:
The default code generation strategy for the Designer creates a factory method that accepts all required (not-nullable) properties as parameters. Of course, you create a method like this yourself if you’re using the Code First workflow:
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