Jack @ ASP.NET

The “EF Code-First” functionality provides a pretty nice code-centric way to work with data.

Advantage

• ·         Develop without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file, and start from a class
• ·         Define your model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required
• ·         Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without explicitly configuring anything
• ·         Optionally override the convention-based persistence and use a fluent code API to fully customize the persistence mapping. columbus oh website design

Disadvantage

• Mapping entities to the database is quite complex
• There is no Model diagram

Some of the big improvements in EF4 include:

EF4 enables you to:

• Develop without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file
• Define your model objects by simply writing “plain old classes” with no base classes required
• Use a “convention over configuration” approach that enables database persistence without explicitly configuring anything
• Optionally override the convention-based persistence and use a fluent code API to fully customize the persistence mapping