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Entity Framework introduction in .NET
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Entity Framework introduction in .NET
  • Entity Framework is described as an ORM (Object
    Relational Mapping) framework that provides an
    automatic mechanism for developers to store and
    access the information from the database.
  • It is the primary source of interaction between
    .NET applications and relational databases.
    Entity Framework consists of a variety of tools
    that simplify mapping between objects in your
    software to the tables and columns of a computer
    database. ORM automatically creates classes
    supported database tables or vice-versa i.e. it
    can even automatically generate necessary SQL to
    form database tables supported classes.

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Use of Entity Framework
  • It is to extend the developers productivity by
    reducing the redundant task of persisting the
    info used in the applications.
  • Entity Framework can generate the required
    database commands for reading or writing data
    within the database and execute them.
  • If youre querying, youll be able to express
    your queries against your domain objects using
    LINQ to entities.
  • It will execute the relevant query within the
    database to materialize results into instances of
    your domain objects for you to figure within your
    app.

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The architecture of Framework consists of the
following
  • Data Providers Data providers are
    source-specific, that abstract interfaces are
    attached to connect the database when programming
    against the conceptual schema. It translates SQL
    languages like LINQ by command tree to the native
    System Query Language expressions and then
    executes them against the particular DBMS system.
  • Entity Client It is a data provider used by
    entity framework applications to access the data,
    this layer exposes the entity layer to the upper
    layer. Entity client provides the flexibility for
    developers to figure against entities within the
    style of rows and columns using entity SQL
    queries without the necessity to get classes to
    represent conceptual schema. Entity Client
    represents the core functionality layers of the
    entity framework

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The architecture of Framework consists of the
following
  • Object Service The Object Services enables to
    work with entities such as memory objects. It is
    the Object Context, that represents the session
    of interaction between the data source and
    applications.
  • Article Context is used to perform different
    operations like add, delete instances of
    entities, and save lots of the changed states
    back to the database with the assistance of
    queries.
  • ORM layer shows the result to the instances of
    entities.
  • It allows developers to use various ORM features
    like primary key mapping, change tracking, etc.
    by writing queries using Entity SQL or LINQ.

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Entity Data Model
  • The Entity Data Model (EDM) specifies (CSDL) the
    conceptual model and an extended version
    entity-relationship model. It also refers to a
    collection of concepts that describe the data
    structure of the system, no matter its stored
    form.
  • The model uses three core parts of EDM.
  • Storage Schema Model The Storage Model is a
    database design which is also called SSDL
    (Storage Schema Definition Layer) which
    represents a schematic representation of backend
    data.
  • Conceptual Model The Conceptual Model contains
    the model classes and is also called Conceptual
    Schema Definition Layer (CSDL) is that the real
    entity model, against which we write our queries.
  • Mapping Model The mapping layer consists of
    information that is simply a mapping between the
    Conceptual model and also the Storage model.
    Mapping of logical and physical schema is
    represented as an EDM(Entity Data Model).

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Relationships
  • In RDBMS or relational databases, the relation is
    said to exist between different tables through
    the defined foreign keys. There are mainly 3
    forms of relationships between tables which also
    depend on how the related columns are being
    constructed. In the framework, these
    relationships can also be created through code.
  • One-to-Many Relationship
  • Many-to-Many Relationship
  • One-to-One Relationship

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