Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Chapter 4. Understanding the new features of Entity Framework 5.0

In this chapter we will cover:

• Creating our first Code First application
• Using Code First Migrations

Introduction

Entity Framework (EF) has really grown, and with .NET 4.5, we have a mature framework that has some new capabilities, such as Code First Migrations, which we will explore in the following recipes.

Note that we will do that in a progressive way, so we will be creating a base for some of the recipes in the next chapter.