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Examine the Entity Framework sample

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Examine the Entity Framework sample

- This course uses Entity Framework for some of the examples. Let's take a few minutes and explore the Entity Framework models and the sample application that contains those models. I'm using Entity Framework 6 for this course. I could have used the newer .NET Core versions as well. While the newer versions have some interesting improvements, the models created for this course wouldn't be noticeably different had I used Entity Framework Core 3. I have put these models in a .NET framework executable. I need an executable or a DLO to contain these, especially when I start working with LINQpad later in the course. In this case, I chose a console application. And within that console application, I have defined two models. One for the Northwind database, this is a sample database that Microsoft created many years ago, and one for another one I use in some of my courses called the Tours database. So there's the Tours…

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