Sunday, August 17 2008 - Data Access
From Microsoft
Entity Framework Supported Mapping Scenarios
Writer: Asad Khan
Published: July 2008
Applies To: Entity Framework
Summary: This white paper enumerates the supported mapping scenarios in Entity
Framework. It also mentions important design considerations for store schema in
order to deal with advanced mapping scenarios.
What is the situation about the edm designer today?, I'm trying to create an relation/association between two tables, and all resources I can find on this are talking about ssdl, csdl files etc, none shows how to do this properly with the designer.And the designer creates one edmx file, but all examples are using many files, looks like it is still many ways to Rome, but what is the best practice, should we not use the designer at all?If I had proper relations in the database everything is ok, but creating your own, based on logical relations is no go. (But I might be only bangning my head..)
I wrote a tutorial on this last year in this blog. It's either from Beta2 or Beta3 so it will look a little different than the current designer.http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2007/11/01/MappingAssociationsInTheEDMDesigner.aspx
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