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"Cool" New Courses for Entity Framework

By Brian Ewoldt

We've joined forces with our Yeti instructor, Don Kiely, to create two new Entity Framework 6.1 courses for you.

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Entity Framework's Entity Data Model

By Brian Ewoldt

Don Kiely recently presented an interesting webinar on the Entity Framework Data Model-complete with his sled dogs in the background supporting him all the way.

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Entity Framework 6.1 Fundamentals

By Brian Ewoldt

New from our instructor in the land of the midnight sun are new courses covering the fundamentals of Entity Framework 6.1.

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Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation - C# 2010

Excerpt by Robert Green and Ken Getz

Modern applications require a modern user interface.

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Domain Centric Modeling - Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Excerpt by Don Kiely

When the first version of Entity Framework came out, it included support for database-first design, which would reverse engineer an existing database and build a model for you.

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Overview of the Entity Framework

By Martin Schaeferle

Suppose you are designing a database application from scratch.

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ObjectContext's SavingChanges Event

By Martin Schaeferle

ObjectContext's SavingChanges event lets you validate or change data before Entity Framework sends it to the database.

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It's Cleanup Time, Entity Data Model Style

By Martin Schaeferle

As good and useful as a model generated using database-first design can be-it is highly dependent on the quality of the underlying database design.

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Updating Existing Entities

By Martin Schaeferle

Querying data is a useful benefit of using Entity Framework, but you'll often need to create, modify, and delete entity data as well.

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Entity Data Model in the Raw

By Martin Schaeferle

The Entity Data Model designer in Visual Studio displays a graphical view only of the conceptual model, which Entity Framework uses to provide entity data objects to an application.

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The Entity Data Model Designer

By Martin Schaeferle

Entity Framework's Entity Data Model is the key link between the entity data objects in your application and the backend data store where data resides.

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The .NET Objects 411

By Martin Schaeferle

ADO.NET has long provided a variety of generic data objects you can use to access data in a variety of data stores.

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Top-Down Design or Bottom-up Design, That is the Question

By Martin Schaeferle

When it comes to brand new data applications, there are two broad ways to approach building the application: design the object model first and the database later, or build the database first and the object model later.

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