Code First is a new development approach in the Entity Framework 4.1 stack that can simplify the understanding and maintenance of your domain model.

There are three approaches to model your entities in Entity Framework: Code First, Model First, and Database First. This article discusses all these three approaches and their pros and cons.

The .NET Entity Framework has come a long way since its early beginnings as an NHibernate alternative and the successor to LinqToSQL. Currently in version 6.0, the ORM is stable and mature but you ...

In the middle of 2008, Microsoft published the first version of the Entity Framework (Entity Framework 1) as part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The Entity Framework was created as an object-relational ...

In the Database First approach, you started with an existing database and used the Entity Framework wizard to create the Entity Data Model (EDM). The model was built as a one-to-one mapping between ...