By: Comfortably Anonymous
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A list of excellent Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC resources.
- Introduction to the Entity Framework 4.1 (Code First)
- The Entity Framework Code First Class Library API Reference
- Entity Framework FAQ
- The Entity Framework Team Blog
- Entity Framework in the MSDN Library
- Entity Framework in the MSDN Data Developer Center
- Entity Framework Forums on MSDN
- Julie Lerman's blog
- Code First DataAnnotations Attributes
- Maximizing Performance with the Entity Framework in an ASP.NET Web Application
- Profiling Database Activity in the Entity Framework
Blog Posts with Relevant Information:
- Fluent API Samples - How to customize mapping using fluent API method calls.
- Connections and Models - How to connect to different types of databases.
- Pluggable Conventions - How to change conventions.
- Finding Entities - How to use the
Find
method with composite keys. - Loading Related Entities - Additional options for eager, lazy, and explicit loading.
- Load and AsNoTracking - More on explicit loading.
(Many of the blog posts listed here are for the CTP5 version of Entity Framework Code First. Most of the information in them remains accurate, but there are some changes between CTP5 and the officially released version of Code First.)
For information about how to use LINQ with the Entity Framework, see LINQ to Entities in the MSDN Library.
For a tutorial that uses more MVC features and uses the Entity Framework, see MVC Music Store.
For information about how to deploy your web application after you've built it, see ASP.NET Deployment Content Map in the MSDN Library.
[This list stolen from the last page of the excellent "Getting Started with Entity Framework using MVC3" tutorial at www.asp.net]