[Visual Studio] Create DbContext from ERD

 Visual Studio    Entity Framework   ERD

▌Introduction

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There are many tools for designing ERD. However, most of them are not free for personal use. Besides, how to transfer the ERD models to the real POCOs in our programming environment is another potential point.

So, using the Visual Studio to create ERD is one of the best practices. You can get the free version and it definitely has high integration on your design and development with Entity Framework.

▌Environment

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l   Visual Studio 2015 Ent.

▌Lets start it!

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▋ERD

Create a new project and add “ADO.NET Entity Data Model (EDM)” to our new project.

Now you can design the ERD!

 

▋POCO

Right click on the design tool and select “Add Code Generation Item” to generate POCO classes from the ERD.

 

▌Reference

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How to: Customize Object-Layer Code Generation (Entity Data Model Designer)