Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Coding Your Model

As you learned previously, with the Code First approach you define entities and associations in code. Let’s provide a simple example, in which you implement business objects like an Author class and a Book class representing two entities. Listing 26.7 shows how to define both entities.

LISTING 26.7 Coding Two Entities in Code First

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Public Class Author    Public Property AuthorId As Integer    Public Property FirstName As String    Public Property LastName As String    Public Property Books As ICollection(Of Book)End ClassPublic Class Book    Public Property BookId As Integer    Public Property Title As String    Public Property Author As Author    Public Property ISBN As String    Public Property ...