July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Schemas in the Entity Data Model have a Visual Basic counterpart that enables you to write code to work against entities. To understand this, enable the View All Files view in Solution Explorer and expand the Northwind.edmx file. You will see two files with a .tt extension, Northwind.Context.tt and Northwind.tt. Files with a .tt extension are templates that Visual Studio uses for code generation and that are useful to the IDE to generate classes that allow developers to interact with the object model. Regardless of their content, which you are not required to understand for this chapter, start expanding the Northwind.Context.tt file, which contains another file called Northwind.Context.vb. ...