Stored Procedure in Entity Framework: Entity Framework has the ability to automatically build native commands for the database based on your LINQ to Entities or Entity SQL queries, as well as, build the commands for inserting, updating, or deleting d…

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Colored Entity in Entity Framework 5.0 You can change the color of an entity in the designer so that it would be easy to see related groups of entities in the designer from Visual Studio 2012 onwards. To change the color of an entity, select entity i…

Multiple Diagrams in Entity Framework 5.0 Visual Studio 2012 provides a facility to split the design time visual representation of the Entity Data Model. This means that you can have multiple diagrams for one Entity Data Model. You can create a new d…

Table-Valued Function in Entity Framework 5.0 Entity Framework 5.0 supports Table-valued functions of SQL Server. Table-valued functions are similar to stored procedure with one key difference: the result of TVF is composable which means that it can…

Enum in Entity Framework: You can now have an Enum in Entity Framework 5.0 onwards. EF 5 should target .NET framework 4.5 in order to use Enum. Enum can be created for the following data types: Int16 Int32 Int64 Byte SByte You can create and use an E…

Update Entity Graph using DbContext: Updating an entity graph in disconnected scenario is a complex task. It is easy to add a new entity graph in disconnected mode, but to update an entity graph needs careful design consideration. The problem in upda…

Disconnected Entities: Before we see how to perform CRUD operation on disconnected entity graph, let's see how to associate disconnected entity graph with the new context instance. There are two things we need to do when we get a disconnected entity…

Database First development with Entity Framework: We have seen this approach in Create Entity Data Model where we created the EDM, context and entity classes from an existing database. So, when you generate EDMX from an existing database then it is a…

Types of Entity in Entity Framework: We created EDM for existing database in the previous section. As you have learned in the previous section that EDM contains entities for each table in the database. There are two types of Entities in Entity Framew…