ENGLISH COMPONENT – CYCLE 3 SESSION 8

ENTITY FRAMEWORK
WORKSHEET 3.8
 Entity Framework
Worksheet 3.8.1

Look at the sentences below. What do you think the

underlined words and phrases mean? Match them to the
definitions on the right.

1. Fetch will return a network error if a. It is a request for data or

the request is not made to a same information from a database table
origin URL. or combination of tables. It can
either be a request for data
results from your database or for
action on the data, or for both.
2. Articles should be submitted b. It usually means a sequence of
electronically as email attachments. information exchange and related
work (such as database updating)
that is treated as a unit for the
purposes of satisfying a request
and for ensuring database
integrity.
3. When younger people do compose c. To interrupt an action, typically in
emails, it tends to be on a tiny order to take manual control or to
keyboard, with error-prone do another action.
autocorrect.
4. Writing a query requires a set of d. It is the retrieval of data by a
pre-defined code to make the software program, script, or
database understand the hardware device.
instruction.
5. In general, concurrency and e. A preselected option adopted by a
synchronization need to be carefully computer program or other
considered when adding additional mechanism when no alternative is
functionalities. specified by the user or
programmer.
6. Not all of them are installed by f. It is an indication that something
default on the Home edition of is ready to be processed.
Windows XP.
7. Participants should also be familiar g. Capable of making an error. /
with the basic idea of networks and likely to fail or make errors.
the Web, of database technology
and of transaction processing.
8.  In your Web browser's cache are h. It means multiple computations
the most recent Web files that you are happening at the same time.
have downloaded.
9. She overrides the default settings on i. It is a high-speed data storage
her computer. layer which stores a subset of
data, typically transient in nature,
so that future requests for that
data are served up faster than is
possible by accessing the data's
primary storage location.
10. A data migration project can be a j. It is used to describe something
challenge because administrators on which something else is based.
must maintain data integrity
11. There was an underlying current of k. It is the process of transferring
discontent among teachers data between data storage
systems, data formats or
computer systems.
 Worksheet 3.8.2

First, read the following text. After that, complete the empty
spaces with appropriate titles. The titles should represent the
main idea of the sections they correspond to.

Entity Framework?

1. ____________

Prior to .NET 3.5, we (developers) often used to write ADO.NET

code or Enterprise Data Access Block to save or retrieve application
data from the underlying database. We used to open a connection
to the database, create a DataSet to fetch or submit the data to the
database, convert data from the DataSet to .NET objects or vice-
versa to apply business rules. This was a complicated and error-
prone process.

2. ____________

Microsoft has provided a framework called "Entity Framework" to

automate all these database-related activities for your application.
Entity Framework is an open-source ORM framework for .NET
applications supported by Microsoft. It enables developers to work
with data using objects of domain-specific classes without focusing
on the underlying database tables and columns where this data is
stored. With the Entity Framework, developers can work at a higher
level of abstraction when they deal with data, and can create and
maintain data-oriented applications with less code compared with
traditional applications.

Official Definition: “Entity Framework is an object-relational

mapper (O/RM) that enables .NET developers to work with a
database using .NET objects. It eliminates the need for most of the
data-access code that developers usually need to write.”

3. ____________

The following figure illustrates where the Entity Framework fits into
your application.

As per the above graphic, Entity Framework fits between the

business entities (domain classes) and the database. It saves data
stored in the properties of business entities and also retrieves data
from the database and converts it to business entities objects
automatically.

4. ____________

Below you can see a list of the most important Entity Framework
features.

 Cross-platform: EF Core is a cross-platform framework which

can run on Windows, Linux and Mac.
 Modelling: EF (Entity Framework) creates an EDM (Entity Data
Model) based on POCO (Plain Old CLR Object) entities with
get/set properties of different data types. It uses this model
when querying or saving entity data to the underlying
database.
 Querying: EF allows us to use LINQ queries (C#/VB.NET) to
retrieve data from the underlying database. The database
provider will translate this LINQ queries to the database-
specific query language (e.g. SQL for a relational database). EF
also allows us to execute raw SQL queries directly to the
database.
 Change Tracking: EF keeps track of changes occurred to
instances of your entities (Property values) which need to be
submitted to the database.
 Saving: EF executes INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE commands
to the database based on the changes occurred to your
 entities when you call the SaveChanges() method. EF also
provides the asynchronous SaveChangesAsync() method.
 Concurrency: EF uses Optimistic Concurrency by default to
protect overwriting changes made by another user since data
was fetched from the database.
 Transactions: EF performs automatic transaction
management while querying or saving data. It also provides
options to customize transaction management.
 Caching: EF includes first level of caching out of the box. So,
repeated querying will return data from the cache instead of
hitting the database.
 Built-in Conventions: EF follows conventions over the
configuration programming pattern, and includes a set of
default rules which automatically configure the EF model.
 Configurations: EF allows us to configure the EF model by
using data annotation attributes or Fluent API to override
default conventions.
 Migrations: EF provides a set of migration commands that can
be executed on the NuGet Package Manager Console or the
Command Line Interface to create or manage underlying
database Schema.
 Worksheet 3.8.3

Fill out the following self-evaluation section.

 
1. ¿Entiendo qué es Entity Framework?
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2. ¿Entiendo en qué consiste la estrategia Identifying Key
Ideas?
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3. ¿La estrategia Identifying Key Ideas me ayuda a
entender el texto mejor?
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