ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer Scenarios

The topics in this section describe how to use the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer in common application scenarios.

Note

Many of the walkthrough topics in this section use the CourseManager application from the Entity Framework Quickstart as a starting point. For these walkthroughs, we recommend that you use a copy of the CourseManager application, instead of editing the original CourseManager code. You can download the completed Course Manager as both a Visual Basic project and a C# project from the MSDN Code Gallery Web site.

In This Section

• Creating an Application Using an Entity Data Model
  Provides a link to the Entity Framework Quickstart topics. These topics guide you through building the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Mapping Inheritance - Table-per-Hierarchy
  Guides you through implementing table-per-hierarchy inheritance in the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Mapping Inheritance - Table-per-Type
  Guides you through implementing table-per-type inheritance in the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Mapping an Entity to Multiple Tables
  Guides you through mapping an entity type to two tables in the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Mapping an Entity to Stored Procedures
  Guides you through mapping the insert, update, and delete operations of an entity type to stored procedures in the CourseManager application.

• Walkthrough: Retrieving Entity Types with a Stored Procedure
  Guides you through creating a function import from a stored procedure and using it to retrieve a collection of entity types.

• Walkthrough: Using Entities with a Local Database Cache
  Guides you through creating an application that uses a local database cache for local data storage and synchronizes with a remote database.

• Using the Entity Designer with ASP.NET
  Provides an overview of supported ASP.NET project types and a walkthrough of creating an ASP.NET Web Application.

Related Sections

Entity Data Model Tools Tasks

See Also

Other Resources

Entity Framework Tasks
Application Scenarios (Entity Framework)