Comments on: Programming Entity Framework

By: Julie Lerman

Julie Lerman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:08:45 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Jarod. Your early feedback was very helfpul in getting me to think about patterns and some of the approaches I have taken in the book – even though I knew I wouldn’t be able to take this book to the level that you were looking for. I am looking forward to seeing the next steps that people will be able to achieve (and share) once they’ve been learning EF. And you know I’d really love to see an article from you someday that shows how to shape EF (using v1) in a really deep architecture.

@Mendicant, the beauty of the Entity Data MOdel is that you can design it to reflect your objects, not the db tables/views. You can achieve a number of implementations of inheritance hierarchies, for example. While there are varous examples of tweaking the model throughout the book, there is one lengthy chapter devoted to the various mappings in EF’s conceptual model.

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By: mendicant

mendicant — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:03:56 +0000

Does it include how to use EF to map to objects that don’t match your table structure in the database?

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