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View the database structures in LINQPad

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View the database structures in LINQPad

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- [Instructor] Use the connection pane to examine the database tables and Entity Framework types for each connection. Now, remember these are connections, but they're really data contexts that were created by LINQPad. So when I open up this sample database that's included with LINQPad and examine this, I see us as tables here, but these are software tables created with .NET types. So I can see there's a table of T, table of categories, table of customers, and when I expand these further, I see the properties. I can see this is a primary key and I also see all these other properties, of type string and type N32, annullable N32, and so on. So keep that in mind, is our .NET types that represent those tables through the data context. Now, all four of these connections are using a version of the Microsoft Northwind database. This classic example database hasn't been available for decades. Let's go and take a look at…

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