Creating a Connection String and Working with SQL Server LocalDB This tutorial series will teach you the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC 5 Web application using Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Basic. A Visual Studio Express For Web project with VB source code is available to accompany this series which you can download. The tutorial series comprises 11 sections in total. They cover the basics of web development using the ASP.NET MVC framework and the Entity Framework for data access. They are intended to be followed sequentially as each section builds on the knowledge imparted in the previous sections. 5. The MovieDBContext class you created in the previous section handles the task of connecting to the database and mapping Movie objects to database records. SQL Server Express LocalDB LocalDB is a lightweight version of the SQL Server Express Database Engine that starts on demand and runs in user mode. SQL Server Express is not recommended for use in production web applications. Open the application root Web.config file shown below.
Advanced Entity Framework 6 Scenarios for an MVC 5 Web Application (12 of 12) The Contoso University sample web application demonstrates how to create ASP.NET MVC 5 applications using the Entity Framework 6 Code First and Visual Studio 2013. For information about the tutorial series, see the first tutorial in the series. In the previous tutorial you implemented table-per-hierarchy inheritance. This tutorial includes introduces several topics that are useful to be aware of when you go beyond the basics of developing ASP.NET web applications that use Entity Framework Code First. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the code and using Visual Studio for the following topics: The tutorial introduces several topics with brief introductions followed by links to resources for more information: The tutorial also includes the following sections: For most of these topics, you'll work with pages that you already created. Performing Raw SQL Queries The Entity Framework Code First API includes methods that enable you to pass SQL commands directly to the database. Summary
Part 1: Overview and File->New Project The MVC Music Store is a tutorial application that introduces and explains step-by-step how to use ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio for web development. The MVC Music Store is a lightweight sample store implementation which sells music albums online, and implements basic site administration, user sign-in, and shopping cart functionality. This tutorial series details all of the steps taken to build the ASP.NET MVC Music Store sample application. Part 1 covers Overview and File->New Project. Overview The MVC Music Store is a tutorial application that introduces and explains step-by-step how to use ASP.NET MVC and Visual Web Developer for web development. The application we’ll be building is a simple music store. Visitors can browse Albums by Genre: They can view a single album and add it to their cart: They can review their cart, removing any items they no longer want: Proceeding to Checkout will prompt them to login or register for a user account. 1. Installing the software Author Information
Getting Started with Entity Framework 6 Code First using MVC 5 The Contoso University sample web application demonstrates how to create ASP.NET MVC 5 applications using the Entity Framework 6 and Visual Studio 2013. This tutorial uses the Code First workflow. For information about how to choose between Code First, Database First, and Model First, see Entity Framework Development Workflows. The sample application is a web site for a fictional Contoso University. A Visual Basic version translated by Mike Brind is available: MVC 5 with EF 6 in Visual Basic on the Mikesdotnetting site. Software versions used in the tutorial The tutorial should also work with Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web or Visual Studio 2012. Tutorial versions For previous versions of this tutorial, see the EF 4.1 / MVC 3 e-book and Getting Started with EF 5 using MVC 4. Questions and comments Please leave feedback on how you liked this tutorial and what we could improve in the comments at the bottom of the page. The Contoso University Web Application Prerequisites <! The Student Entity
How to: Build an EntityConnection Connection String To run the code in this example Example // Specify the provider name, server and database.string providerName = "System.Data.SqlClient"; string serverName = " See Also Build Date: