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Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4

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by Scott Guthrie
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Article Contents:

Introduction
Code-First Development with EF
Step by Step Tutorial: Building NerdDinner using a Code-First Approach
Step 1: Create a New Empty ASP.NET MVC 2 Application
Creating Model Classes
Creating a Context Class to Handle Database Persistence
Convention Based Persistence Mapping
Code Examples of How to Use Our Model
Step 3: Create a ASP.NET MVC Controller that uses our Model
Step 4: The Database
Populating the Database with some Dinners
Step 5: Changing our Model
Adding a new Property to the Dinner Model
Re-synchronizing our Model Classes with the Database
Seeding Initial Data in Automatically Created Databases
Step 6: Adding Validation Rules
Referencing some CSS and JavaScript files
Running the Application
Download
Summary
Resources

Populating the Database with some Dinners

Let’s now create and add some Dinners to our database. We’ll do this by clicking the “Create New Dinner” link on our home-page to navigate to our “Create” form:

When we click the “Create” button, our new Dinner will be saved in the database. We can repeat this multiple times to register several different Dinners. Each new Dinner we create will be persisted within our database and show up in our Home listing of upcoming dinners:

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