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Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4

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by Scott Guthrie
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Article Contents:

Introduction
Code-First Development with EF
Step by Step Tutorial: Building NerdDinner using a Code-First Approach
Step 1: Create a New Empty ASP.NET MVC 2 Application
Creating Model Classes
Creating a Context Class to Handle Database Persistence
Convention Based Persistence Mapping
Code Examples of How to Use Our Model
Step 3: Create a ASP.NET MVC Controller that uses our Model
Step 4: The Database
Populating the Database with some Dinners
Step 5: Changing our Model
Adding a new Property to the Dinner Model
Re-synchronizing our Model Classes with the Database
Seeding Initial Data in Automatically Created Databases
Step 6: Adding Validation Rules
Referencing some CSS and JavaScript files
Running the Application
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Summary
Resources

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Click here to download and run the above NerdDinnerReloaded sample we’ve built in this blog post. It requires VS 2010 (or the free Visual Web Developer 2010 Express).

Important: You must download and install SQL CE 4 on your machine for the above sample to work. You can download the EF Code-First library here. Neither of these downloads will impact your machine.

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