Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Step by Step (Step by Step Developer)

The examples worked well. It is not up to date and needs to be. I did learn Entity from this book.

Nov, 2020.The versions in the book are outdated (obviously), which makes some of the examples and steps hard to do if you're using VS2019. I've run into one situation where I had to manually type a line of code that apparently used to be auto-generated. Struggled to figure out why following the steps to the letter didn't work. That said, the writing is good. The examples are good so far. I still kind of wish the Microsoft books would have more examples and tables of info, like textbooks do. I get it, it's not a textbook, but it's trying to accomplish the same thing. It basically shows you one instance of a topic and leaves you to figure out how to do other implementations.

It is my first development book I bought. I was always a bit skeptic about buying such book, because technology changes quickly. But I must say that while reading this book, there is an in depth and step by step explanation about the Entity Framework. It guides me through the process and makes it look easy.I created some sample applications while reading the book, to test some of what I learned in reality. The book seems also a very good reference guide while building your own applications.

This is a book that, teaches by example which I like, however, the author, after I purchased the book, stated you need the version of Visual Studio that is at least: Professional, preferable the Ultimate, of course the very costly versions instead of the Visual Studio Community edition. Not sure what he was thinking there as the Entity Framework is available to all editions of visual studio, just not all of them contain the fancy tools that the high cost versions do.I feel he needs to re-think his strategy for the book as a beginning step-by-step book as most of the people using the book won't have the resources to have access to the high-dollar version of visual studio he demands for basic learning.

Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Step by Step by John Paul Mueller (Microsoft Press) is now the second consecutive book I've read on Entity Framework. Once again, I'm highly impressed by the content. Of course, Mr. Mueller is no stranger to technical writing. A few years ago I read his book  Professional IronPython , and at the time I remarked how well-written and applicable the material was to everyday professional programming. Now comes his latest book, and it was refreshing to see such a pragmatic approach taken to programming with Entity Framework 5.This book is undoubtedly step-by-step, just as the title implies. By the second chapter, the author had me coding a simple model-first application with very clear and thorough steps explaining how (and why), Entity Framework can make building data-centric applications a breeze. Chapter 3 discusses the three basic workflows in EF development (code-first, model-first, database-first) and that's where the book wraps Part I.Part II dives much deeper and discusses EF objects, object services, and querying with Entity SQL. It also delves into extension methods to some degree, and Lambda expressions. All of this is to make the developer become comfortable with create, read, update and delete operations against EF objects. Part III contained a number of chapters relative to working with manipulating data at both the client and server level. Throughout these chapters, Mr. Mueller approaches working with these two contexts in both linear fashion, as well as approaching interaction directly with tables, stored procedures, views and table-valued functions.Part IV is all about troubleshooting exceptions, and I found this the most invaluable content in the entire book. Mr. Mueller includes topics like various levels of exceptions and optimistic concurrency. Moreover, he addresses performance issues and threading, something not commonly seen in a lot of books on this subject. The book concludes with custom entity creation, mapping data types, and multiple-model manipulation (say that 5 times real fast).I did not like the fact that nearly all of the examples required the reader to have Visual Studio 2012 Professional or greater (e.g., a lot of things wouldn't work in Visual Studio 2012 Express editions). Then again, the author was pretty up-front about the fact so I can't really complain. I also don't feel the book was necessarily for the Intermediate programmer. There was much from which a novice or student could gain from the content, and I think there should have been some attempt to target that audience. All-in-all, I felt the book did the topic justice and came through on its promised content. Mr. Mueller also has a pretty good style because let's face it, some technical material can be really dry. A solid effort and I recommend it for anyone, novice to intermediate, who wants to learn Entity Framework 5 from the ground up.* In the interest of full disclosure, I received a free copy of the book from the publisher in exchange for writing this review. However, all opinions and observations regarding the text are my own, and based on my experience as a professional developer.

This is not a bad book, but it has far too many typos and other errors in it. It also demonstrates everything on a too simplistic model. Having said that, it is extremely good in its explanations of things which get left out of other books on Entity Framework, for example the difference in use of IQueryable and IEnumerable.It is essential that you work through all the exercises, most of which are based on the Model First approach. If you are not prepared to do this -- don't buy the book.It is weak on CodeFirst, although it does illustrate it. Migrations are not mentioned, which makes Code First usable.Having said all this -- I don't regret buying the book and working through it.

I am not too sure I wasn't doing something wrong but some examples simply did not work. Other examples seemed to be rather contrived doing something that could be done in simpler ways. As such would not recommend it to beginners how might not be able to figure out what is not going right on their own. As an intro book on the subject should work well enough for those who have experience in C#.

Guida introduttiva (alle volte troppo introduttiva per chi ne sa già qualcosa di database), che passo guida alla scoperta di Entity Framework. Direi che tutti gli argomenti vengono affrontati, perlomeno dal punto di vista iniziale. Io ne sono rimasto molto soddisfatto, la lettura scorre veloce e gli esempi sono esaustivi e semplici da implementare. Poi è compito di ogni singolo sviluppatore approfondire gli argomenti di maggiore interesse.

it was very useful from the first chapter, it is very good to those how have programming experience to develop further skills

Good to read