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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition
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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
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23.2. Building and Analyzing your First EDM

Now that you have a better understanding of what the ADO.NET Entity Framework is attempting to accomplish, as well as a high-level idea of how it all works, it's time to look at your first full example. To keep things simple for now, you will build an EDM that only allow access to the Inventory table of AutoLot. Once you understand the basics, you will build a new EDM that accounts for the entire AutoLot database, and then display your data in a graphical user interface.

23.2.1.

23.2.1.1. Generating the *.edmx File

Begin by creating a new Console Application named InventoryEDMConsoleApp. When you wish to use the Entity Framework, your first step is to generate the necessary conceptual, logical, ...

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