Choose a workflow & API

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You’ve had some experience with each of the Entity Framework workflows (Database-First, Model-First and Code-First) and both of the APIs. Now it’s time to decide how you’ll build the application. Here are some things to consider:

Image We don’t have a preexisting database, so there’s no compelling reason to use Database-First. There’s also no reason not to, if that seems the most comfortable way of working to you.

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