Earlier this week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update that we shipped last month. In today's blog post I'm going to go into more detail about two of the cool new features it brings: Built-in support for EF 4.1 (which includes the new EF "code-first" support) Built-in data scaffolding support within Visual Studio (which enables you to rapidly create data-driven sites) These two features provide a really sweet, and extremely powerful, way to work with data and build data-driven web applications. Scenario We'll Build To help illustrate how to use the above features, we'll walkthrough building a simple data-drive site. It will support listing products: As well as creating/editing new products (and categories): We can now...(read more) ...
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