Gil Fink is a senior architect for the Sela Group and a Microsoft MVP focusing on data platforms. In the May issue of Visual Studio Magazine, Gil wrote a feature exploring the new Code First features ...

There are three approaches to model your entities in Entity Framework: Code First, Model First, and Database First. This article discusses all these three approaches and their pros and cons.

Everyone likes the plain old objects used in code-first Entity Framework development. No one, on the other hand, likes writing all of the repeated code in those objects. Good News! You already have a ...

You can rapidly develop your database design in SQL Management Studio then generate the code model in just few clicks. More recently I’ve come to prefer #1 (or #2) for the following reasons.

Take advantage of the DbContext in Entity Framework Core to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using CLR objects Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an open-source object-relational ...