Learning Microsoft Azure

Building a database using Entity Framework (EF) Code First Migrations

Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft's object-relational mapper (ORM) for .NET, which allows developers to easily work with relational data inside their applications using domain objects. Instead of manually writing data access layers to read/write and parse data, as you would by using native ADO.NET, using an ORM saves time and effort. When we use EF in our projects, we have a number of different options to create our database and entities:

• Database-First: With this technique, we can create our database (or use an existing database) in a tool such as SQL Management Studio using SQL scripts or the designer. In Visual Studio, we can create an ADO.NET Entity Data Model (EDM) to ...