I'm been looking around and trying to see if the Entity Framework 4 will run under Visual Studio 2008, but can;t find any references to it.
Can you get EF4 working on VS2008?
So I'm starting to look into EF and POCO.
From my understanding, the entity generated by EF is not pure POCO since it inherit from EntityObject.
But are they PI? It seem to me that they don't have any persistence awareness in them, or there is something in the EntityObject that makes them PI?
Any experiences on how to document Entity Framework 4 based Database projects?
There is the Document and Summary properties on the Entities, but if we want to regenerate the model from the database at some point, it will be lost!
Is there some way to map documentation data inside SQL to the Entities in the EDMX file so it is safe.
Suggestions of other best practices? Ideally I want to be able to augo generate html/helpfile documentation from the DB when we deploy.
Can someone point me to a good tutorial explaining the Entity Framework using an XML file instead of a database?
I have seen some good tutorials with SQL databases, but I can't make the leap to an XML file.
Thanks!
Hello All:
I am using entity framework 3.5 for my application.
I want load data based on some condition e.g.
var data = from e in context.Employee.Include("Employee.Projects") where e.IsActive select e;
Using this, I will get all the Employees which are active with their project details. But I want to load only those projects which are active. So, how to load only active projects using the query?
Thanks
Ashwani
Hello Guys!
I'm mapping a set of tables that share a common set of fields:
So as you can see I'm using a table-per-concrete-type strategy to map the inheritance.
But...
I have not could to relate them to an abstract type containing these common properties.
It's possible to do it using EF?
BONUS: The only non documented Entity Data Model Mapping Scenario is Table-per-concrete-type inheritance http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716779.aspx : P
I have an 'overlay.dtd' file with a line like <!ENTITY myentity "myvalue">.
At the top of my xul file I have <!DOCTYPE overlay SYSTEM 'chrome://myaddon/locale/overlay.dtd'>.
In my xul file, I have <script src='myscript.js'>.
I want to know if there is any way to access 'myentity' from the script.
alert("&myentity;") just alerts "&myentity;"
I'm trying the database first approach by creating an ADO.NET Entity Data Model using the Wizard with the Adventureworks2012 DB.
Testing DB connection works, and the connection string is added to the App.Config.
I'm selecting all the tables except the ones marked as (dbo) AWBuildVersion, DatabaseLog, and ErrorLog.
When the Wizard finishes the .edmx file is blank, and if I view the file in XML view the EntityContainer is empty.
I'm using VS 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0
Let's say we have the "EntityCollection products".
Then the following doesn't work:
foreach (var product in products)
{
product.LastUpdate = DateTime.Now();
}
As you can also not index an EntityCollection, how do you modify an entity in en EntityCollection?
Hi,
I have .net 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 installed in my machine. But what should I further install to create an Entity framework project. Is there any other add ons that is needed?
Hi,
I've described my model using an Ado Entity Data Model file (*.edmx), and i wish now to generate my db schema and tables from it. Is it possible?
Thanks
When use entity framework for DAL tier, VS 2010 can create edmx for each database.
Question:
If I have a database with many tables, should I create only one edmx for all tables or mutiple edmx files? for example, maybe all security tables for one edmx file, other tables for another edmx file. If there is more than one, then in other tiers, there will have more then on ObjectContext in code for business logic.
Which one it the best solution for this case?
I'm well aware that similair topics have been brought up before
e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1639043/entity-framework-4-vs-nhibernate
But instead of arguments like:
NHibernate have been around longer and is more mature
EF4 is drag n drop and not enterprisy
EF4 and LinqToSql are ...
I would like to see a more detailed list of features that you consider missing from EF4.
Personally, I think the lack of enum support is the biggest drawback of EF4.
I am just starting out with ADO.net Entity Framework I have mapped two tables together and receive the following error:
Error 1 Error 11010: Association End 'OperatorAccess' is not mapped. E:\Visual Studio\projects\Brandi II\Brandi II\Hospitals.edmx 390 11 Brandi II
Not sure what it is I am doing wrong
Hi .. I intend to extend the constructors of some of the entities in my Entity Framework (4).
However how do I ensure that my constructor is run after the model has run its.
i.e. I want to ensure that the the object holds the data from the database before I work on it in my constructor.
Sql server 2005 (even 2008) strips the insignificant whitespaces by default. To keep one can use the CONVERT funtction with the last argument as '1' (Ref. Article). How can we do the same thing in Entity Framework?
thanks
These web articles uses separate Save() and Update() methods in the repository pattern.
I am using repository pattern.
How can I write a SaveOrUpdate() method in Entity Framework with the help of ObjectContext and in Linq-To-SQL with the help of DataContext?
That is, how can I write a single method that shall do both save and update job?
I have
[Person]
PersonID, EmailAddress, FirstName, LastName
[OnlineAccount]
OnlineAccountID, PersonID, Nickname
Each person is allowed to have 0-* OnlineAccount.
In entity framework with C#, how do I select the top 5 Person that has the most accounts?
Hi,
I'm writing an application in wpf that uses MVVM. I wondered if I could use ado.net entity data model as a model in MVVM? Is it the same? If not, why?
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Ev.
Hi there,
my Topic should tell you already what i am asking for.
Is there any way to update my database from an entity data model without lossing the inserted content?
I can't be bothered copying all this stuff everytime i make a change.
Thanks a lot.
Chris
Hello Guys!
I'm mapping a set of tables that share a common set of fields:
So as you can see I'm using a table-per-concrete-type strategy to map the inheritance.
But...
I have not could to relate them to an abstract type containing these common properties.
It's possible to do it using EF?
BONUS: The only non documented Entity Data Model Mapping Scenario is Table-per-concrete-type inheritance http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716779.aspx : P
I'm using Entity Framework for creation of my Data Access Layer and I want for all of my classes to be internal.
I know it is possible to manually assign it manually in the designer for each class. But looks like it also requires to set internal modifier for each single property in every class! I have about 30+ entities and it will be a huge work to do.
Do you know any ideas how to set a 'default access' for the entire model?
I am learning Entity framework and linq-to-entities.
It's possible to get cross values from multiple tables using JOINS (join keyword) or using the navigation fields ( associations) in which case the framework knows how to reference the cross data.
My question is what to use when?