Deployment Tasks with the Entity Designer

The topics this section describe how to complete common tasks with the Entity Designer that are relevant to deploying an application that uses an Entity Data Model (EDM). For more information about deploying applications that use the ADO.NET Entity Framework for data access, see Deployment Considerations (Entity Framework).

In This Section

• How to: Copy Model and Mapping Files to the Output Directory
  Describes how to copy model and mapping files to the output directory.

• How to: Use a Model Defined in a Class Library
  Describes how to use a model that was defined in a Visual Studio 2008 Class Library project.

Related Sections

Modeling Tasks with the Entity Designer

Mapping Tasks with the Entity Designer

See Also

Other Resources

ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer Scenarios
Entity Data Model Tools