Entity Framework 6 - Knowledge Base (KB)

Why is a metadata property required for an Entity Framework Connection?

I switched my DAL from using LINQ over to Entity Framework. Because my application connects to different databases depending on the current user, I need to dynamically create the DataContext at run time and pass in the appropriate connection string. How...

Where should I place the connectionstring in Entity Framework's layered design?

I am using a layered architecture with the Entity Framework as my datalayer with a bunch of repositories on top which contain the Linq-To-Entities queries. The data layer is one project, next to that I have a Services layer and the interface, which is a w...

What is the best practice for multiple "Include"-s in Entity Framework?

Let's say we have four entities in data model: Categories, Books, Authors and BookPages. Also assume Categories-Books, Books-Authors and Books-BookPages relationships are one-to-many. ...If a category entity instance is retrieved from database - including...

ASP.NET MVC, EntityFramework, DBContext, Repository in a different Project

I am currently working on an ...ASP.NET MVC 5... project, and I am trying to polish the architecture of the project; make it as clean and easy for people to work on it in the future as possible....For starters I have moved my ...EntityFramework... models ...

.Net Web Api: Why should I install Entity Framework on my Web Api controllers project?

I have a multi-layer .Net Web Api project where (apart from the Web Api layer itself) I have a DAL which will do all database operations (I'm working with Oracle)....For that I've configured Data Access Layer with NuGet and added these next three packages...