I think the differences are: Code first Very popular because hardcore programmers don’t like any kind of designers and defining mapping in EDMX xml is too complex. Full control over the code (no autogenerated code which is hard to modify). General expectation is that you do not bother with DB. DB is just a storage … Read more
If you want to take full advantage of ORM you will definitely use Entity reference: public class Order { public int ID { get; set; } public Customer Customer { get; set; } // <– Customer object … } Once you generate an entity model from a database with FKs it will always generate entity … Read more
This is an example of an extension method I wrote to populate the common values of two objects. public static void PopulateInto( this object source, object target, BindingFlags flags) { foreach (var pi in source.GetType().GetProperties(flags)) { var tpi = target.GetProperty(pi.Name, flags); if (tpi.IsNotNull()) { try { object originalValue; object value = originalValue = source.GetValue<object>(pi.Name, new … Read more