Part 1: First Steps Part 2: Managing Relations Part 3: Collection Relations In the first three parts of this little tutorial I showed how easy is to save objects to database with EF 4.1 code first approach, now it is time to understand how to retrieve objects from the database. Querying objects from database is [...]

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Part 1: First Steps Part 2: Managing Relations Relations between objects are not limited to an object that keep a reference to another object (as seen in part 2), but I can have an object that contains a list of other objects. This is the classic RDBMS rough equivalent of the One-To-Many relation. I decided [...]

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Part 1: First Steps In previous post I showed how you can persist an object to the database thanks to EF41 and few lines of code, now it is time to understand how to manage relations. First of all create another class called weapon and then create a property of type Weapon into the Warrior [...]

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EF 4.1 is now in RC phase and as a NHibernate user I’m curious to check the fluent API to map entities to database. One of the feature that I and Andrea miss most is the possibility to map private properties with fluent interface. It seems strange to map private properties at once, but it [...]

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