Fluent Entity Framework

A preview of coming attractions

In the next chapter we’ll look at how to control the Entity Model Designer in some detail. (And in the chapter after that we’ll see how to forego the Designer completely.) But because you’ll need to change the default code in order to use the DbContext API, here’s a quick walkthrough,

Create a new console project (I called mine DbContextPreview), add the Entity Framework NuGet package, and create a model (I called mine Recipes) that contains the Amount, Recipe, RecipeIngredient and RecipeSteps entities (in other ...