Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Creating our first "Code First" application

Our first application will create a database from code. We will start by creating an ASP.NET project that we will reuse in the following recipes.

Getting ready

In order to use this recipe, you should have Visual Studio 2012 installed.

How to do it...

Here we will create a Code First application and see the main concepts behind this technology and how to use it properly.

1. First open Visual Studio 2012 and create a new project. We will select the ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application template from Visual C# | Web and name it EFCodeFirst as shown in the following screenshot:
   
2. Select the Internet Application template as ...