Entity Framework 6 Recipes

by Brian Driscoll, Zeeshan Hirani, Larry Tenny

Entity Framework 6 Recipes provides an exhaustive collection of ready-to-use code solutions for Entity Framework, Microsoft's model-centric, data-access platform for the .NET Framework and ASP.NET development. With this book, you will learn the core concepts of Entity Framework through a broad range of clear and concise solutions to everyday data access tasks. Armed with this experience, you will be ready to dive deep into Entity Framework, experiment with new approaches, and develop ways to solve even the most difficult data access challenges. If you are a developer who likes to learn by example, then this is the right book for you.

Gives ready-to-use, real-world recipes to help you with everyday tasks Places strong focus on DbContext and the Code First approach Covers new features such as Asynch Query and Save, Codebased Configuration, Connection Resiliency, Dependency Resolution, and much more

Genres: Programming

845 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 2013

Reviews

[Mark Stone · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most recipe books contain good and bad advice with some pieces of code being a good starting point that can and should be improved. The problem is these books market their recipes as ready to go solutions. Unfortunately this book is more the rule than the exception.

[Miloš]

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[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great EF bible! I would recommend it to anyone using Entity Framework because of many useful (sometimes priceless) tips and hints that show how the stuff works or how to make it work better.

Some examples/solutions seem to be hard to maintain (manipulating .edmx files) and as a person who is interested in Code First only approach I read a lot of stuff that I won't probably use.