15.3. Configuring Your Application

Your application can be configured to run Telerik OpenAccess ORM by using either the Enable Project wizard or the Visual Entity Model Designer. These two approaches cannot be used at the same time in the same solution; you have to choose one or another.

  • When using the Enable Project Wizard with your application, OpenAccess will generate persistent classes and a scope provider. Persistent classes are classes that represent objects in the database; for example, a class maps to a table and properties of the class map to fields of the table. The scope provider is a helper class that provides the means to interact with the database through the persistent classes.

  • The other option for using OpenAccess is with the ...

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