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Joydip Kanjilal
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Joydip Kanjilal

Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, as well as a speaker and the author of several books and articles. He received the prestigious MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award at ASP.Net for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. He is currently working as a Chief Software Architect at a reputed software company in Hyderabad. Joydip has almost 20 years of industry experience in IT, with more than 14 years in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. He has been selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) and as Community Credit Winner several times. He is the author of several books and more than 250 articles. Many of his articles have been featured at Microsoft's Official Site on ASP.NET. Joydip has authored the following books:- ASP.NET Web API (Packt Publishing) Visual Studio Six in One (Wrox Publishers) ASP.NET 4.0 Programming (Mc-Graw Hill Publishing) Entity Framework Tutorial (Packt Publishing) Pro Sync Framework (APRESS) Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing) ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials (Packt Publishing) Joydip has also reviewed more than a dozen books till date. He was a speaker a speaker at the reputed Spark IT 2010 event and at the reputed Dr. Dobb's Conference 2014 in Bangalore. He's also worked as a judge for the Jolt Awards at Dr. Dobb's Journal. He blogs these days at: http://www.infoworld.com/blog/microsoft-coder
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Creating a database using model-first development


One of the most interesting new features and enhancements introduced in Entity Framework 6 is its ability to generate a database from an existing object model. This approach provides you with better control over your design and promotes domain-driven design (DDD). In this approach, you can design your domain model based on the business requirements first and then generate the database from it.

Before we explore this further, let's take a quick tour of the modeling approaches that are supported. The domain modeling approaches in Entity Framework include the following:

  • Code-first: In this approach, the domain model is first defined using the POCO classes and then the database is created from these classes. This approach is popular and provides much more control over your code—you just need to define the database mappings and leave the creating of the database entirely to Entity Framework. Note that as your code drives the database, manual changes...

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Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, as well as a speaker and the author of several books and articles. He received the prestigious MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award at ASP.Net for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. He is currently working as a Chief Software Architect at a reputed software company in Hyderabad. Joydip has almost 20 years of industry experience in IT, with more than 14 years in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. He has been selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) and as Community Credit Winner several times. He is the author of several books and more than 250 articles. Many of his articles have been featured at Microsoft's Official Site on ASP.NET. Joydip has authored the following books:- ASP.NET Web API (Packt Publishing) Visual Studio Six in One (Wrox Publishers) ASP.NET 4.0 Programming (Mc-Graw Hill Publishing) Entity Framework Tutorial (Packt Publishing) Pro Sync Framework (APRESS) Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing) ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials (Packt Publishing) Joydip has also reviewed more than a dozen books till date. He was a speaker a speaker at the reputed Spark IT 2010 event and at the reputed Dr. Dobb's Conference 2014 in Bangalore. He's also worked as a judge for the Jolt Awards at Dr. Dobb's Journal. He blogs these days at: http://www.infoworld.com/blog/microsoft-coder
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