Partial Views - ASP.NET MVC Demystified

Let's see how to split our CSHTML views into reusable partial views for ASP.NET MVC.

Using Code-First Migrations in Entity Framework

Entity Framework Code-First includes a new feature for maintaining database changes in code files: Migrations. Migrations are code files that describe what changes were made to the database schema at different points in time. You create the migrations when you need them, and the code will use those files (and

Building a Code-First Model Using FluentAPI in Entity Framework

Now that we've created a Code-First model using Attributes [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-for-beginners-a-code-first-model-using-attributes] , let's walk through the other manner by which we can create a model: FluentAPI. The Model Once again, we will be using the same CourseCatalog model: To start off, let's create the classes necessary to represent

Building a Code-First Model Using Attributes in Entity Framework

In previous posts we have created a database-first model [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-for-beginners-creating-a-database-first-model/] , created a model-first model using an EDMX [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-for-beginners-creating-a-model-first-model/] , and created a code-first model from an existing database [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-for-beginners-creating-a-code-first-model-from-a-database] . In this post, we will create a co

Creating a Code-First Model from a Database in Entity Framework

In previous posts we've explored creating a database-first model [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-for-beginners-creating-a-database-first-model/] and creating a model-first model [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-for-beginners-creating-a-model-first-model/] . Both of those designs used the same thing: an EDMX file. In order to use that file, we had to use a designer. But what if