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ENTITY FRAMEWORK IN ASP.

NET
MVC

APPLICATION

OBJECT OBJECT
 Ado.Net
 SqlConnection
 SqlCommand
 SqlDataReader
FRAMEWORK  SqlDataAdapter
 Stored Procedures
 Manual Mapping

DATABASE

To address the data access requirements of ASP.NET MVC application, you can
use an ORM (OBJECT RELATIONAL MAPPING) framework.

An ORM framework:
 Simplifies the process of accessing data from applications.
 ORM is a tool for storing data from domain objects to relational database.
ENTITY FRAMEWORK:
 The Entity Framework is an ORM framework that ASP.NET MVC
applications can use.
 The Entity Framework is an implementation of the Entity Data Model
(EDM), which is a conceptual model that describes the entities and the
associations they participate in an application.
 The Entity Data Model (EDM) is a set of concepts that describe the
structure of data.
 Entity Data Model is a model that describes entities and the relationships
between them.
 EDM allows you to handle data access logic by programming against
entities without having to worry about the structure of the underlying data
store and how to connect with it.
 Entity Framework eliminates the need to write most of the data-access
code that otherwise need to be written.
 It is an enhancement to ADO.NET that gives developers an automated
mechanism for accessing and storing the data in the database.
 Using the Entity Framework, developers issue queries using LINQ (Language
integrated query), then retrieve and manipulate data as strongly type
objects.

 Uses different approaches to manage data related to an application.


o CODE FIRST APPROACH
o DATABASE FIRST APPROACH
o MODEL FIRST APPROACH
CODE-FIRST APPROACH OF ENTITY
FRAMEWORK IN MVC
In the code-first approach the Entity Framework creates database objects based
on model classes that you create to represent application data.

THE CODE-FIRST APPROACH:


 Is the most common approach implemented in ASP.NET MVC Framework.
 Allows you to develop your application by coding model classes and
properties and delegate the process of creating the database objects to the
Entity Framework.
 The code-first approach allows you to define your own model by creating
custom classes.
 Then, you can create database based on the models.

Following figure shows the code-first approach:

The DbContext class:


 Is provided by the System.Data.Entity namespace of the ASP.NET MVC
Framework.
 Can be used to define the database context class after creating a model
class.
 Coordinates with Entity Framework and allows you to query and save the
data in the database.
 Uses the DbSet <T> type to define one or more properties where, T
represents the type of an object that needs to be stored in the database.
CREATING CRUD APPLICATION USING ENTITY
FRAMEWORK CODE FIRST APPROACH IN ASP.NET MVC
 C – CREATE --- INSERT DATA INTO DATABASE
 R – READ -- SELECT DATA FROM DATABASE
 U – UPDATE --- UPDATE DATA IN DATABASE
 D – DELETE --- DELETE DATA FROM DATABASE
DATABASE-FIRST APPROACH OF
ENTITY FRAMEWORK IN ASP.NET
MVC 5
 In the database-first approach the Entity Framework creates model classes
and properties corresponding to the existing database objects, such as
tables and columns.
 The database-first approach is applicable in scenario where a database
already exists for the application.

Following figure shows the database-first approach:

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