1. Data centric apps for web, desktop and mobile with EF5
Windows Azure
5/29/2018
Data centric apps for web, desktop and mobile with EF5
Rowan Miller
Program Manager
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2. Agenda
Developer workflows
Entity Framework 5
Demos
Entity Framework 6

3. EF developer workflows
Designer centric
Code centric
New database
Model first
Create .edmx model in designer
Generate database from .edmx
Classes auto-generated from .edmx
Code first
Define classes and mapping in code
Database auto-created at runtime
Existing database
Database first
Reverse engineer .edmx model
Classes auto-generated from .edmx
Code first
Define classes and mapping in code (Reverse engineer tools available)

4. Entity Framework 5 (EF5) EntityFramework NuGet Package
Included in Visual Studio 2012
Works with Visual Studio 2010
Works with .NET 4.0 and 4.5
Most new features require .NET 4.5

5. What’s new in EF5 EF designer and code first EF designer only
Enum support
Spatial data types
Performance improvements
EF designer only
Table-valued Functions (TVFs)
Multiple diagrams and coloring
DbContext code generation

6. Park Finder
demo

7. Search Text Bing Maps API Coordinates ParkFinder Web API
List<Park>
Entity Framework
LocalDb
Map
GridView
demo

8. EF developer workflows
Designer centric
Code centric
New database
Model first
Create .edmx model in designer
Generate database from .edmx
Classes auto-generated from .edmx
Code first
Define classes and mapping in code
Database auto-created at runtime
Existing database
Database first
Reverse engineer .edmx model
Classes auto-generated from .edmx
Code first
Define classes and mapping in code (Reverse engineer tools available)

9. Entity Framework 6 (EF6) Open source Targeting mid-2013 RTM
Accepting contributions
Code base has Apache 2.0 License
Releases have same license, branding, quality, support, etc. as EF5
Targeting mid-2013 RTM
Alpha 1 available today

10. EF6 Features Async query and save Dependency injection pattern
Code first custom conventions
Enums, spatial, etc. on .NET 4.0
Connection resiliency (retry)
Tooling consolidation
Code first stored procedure support

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12. Resources msdn.com/data/ef blogs.msdn.com/adonet
entityframework.codeplex.com
twitter.com/efmagicunicorns
#EFHelp on Twitter
facebook.com/efmagicunicorns
romiller.com
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