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renegadeMind
renegadeMind

Reputation: 4094

What is the best approach to implement Entity Framework for a messy database?

I have in front of me a scenario in which an application needs to be overhauled architecturally and i want to use EF 4.3 to be the ORM part of the architecture.

The database used by the application is messy and some of the tables lack relations/keys.

I want to evaluate before i go about designing the architecture as to what would be the best foot forward - code first POCO or the EDMX approach?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1147

Answers (1)

Gert Arnold
Gert Arnold

Reputation: 109079

I recently created an EDMX on a database schema lacking some foreign keys as well. It is not hard to create associations by hand. For that task, the visual designer surface comes in handy. So I would use edmx.

With code-first I think it is quite a hassle to manufacture classes matching the database design.

For a thorough general discussion, see EF Model First or Code First Approach?.

Upvotes: 1

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