# Entity Framework - Prashant Brall's Blog

Prashant Brall's Blog

POCO and Entity Framework I have been playing around with Entity Framework 4 and was intrigued by the POCO support in it, as the new version is CTP 4.0 and we might be approaching the RTM version soon so I thought i will collate my experiences and gotchas on how to use them.

POCO and Entity Framework:Using Complex Types I will update my code from the previous post with CTP 5 changes and will introduce some real life project scenarios as well.

EF Code First: Managing relationships In this post I will show how easy it is to manage relationships between entities using the EF Code first approach. I think this is one of the reasons I really like EF Code first as it makes things so simple and easy.

EF Code First: Table Per Hierarchy In this post, I am going to show you how to use Table Per Hierarchy relationship with Code First Approach.

EF Code First: Table Per Type In this post I am going to show you another type of mapping inheritance relationship which is called Table Per Type and it is quite similar to the Table Per hierarchy from the last post.

EF Code First:Tips & Tricks In this post I am going to show you some small tips & tricks about EF Code First which are quite useful.

EF Code First: Many to Many Self referencing relationship In this post I am going to show you how to map a self referencing many to many relationships as it's a very interesting scenario.

EF Code First:Running SQL scripts In this post I am going to show you how to run SQL scripts in Entity Framework 4.1 as we have seen that it's quite easy to define our database entities using the DBSet and all the relationship using the EntityTypeConfiguration class.

EF Code First:Executing Stored Procedure In this post I am going to show you how to use stored procedure with Entity Framework 4.1 even though it is official that Entity Framework 4.1 doesn't support stored procedure and this was announced by the ADO.NET team at the time of the release.

Entity Framework: Viewing SQL In this post I am going to show you a cool trick I learned regarding ObjectQuery class and how it can be useful when working with Entity Framework.

Getting Started with Entity Framework 5 I finally took the plunge and installed Visual Studio 2012 and Entity Framework 5.Before I delve into any EF 5 code a few things I want to clarify about it.

Entity Framework 7: In Memory Testing I am really excited about the in-memory testing feature of Entity Framework 7 as testing in the previous versions of Entity Framework wasn't straightforward and painful at times.

Entity Splitting in Entity Framework I have done a lot of post on Entity Framework Code First which includes some simple tips and tricks to more complex scenarios of mapping relationship and here are some of those post if you want to read them.

Table Splitting in Entity Framework In my previous post I covered the Entity Splitting technique and in this post I am going to talk about just the opposite of that technique.