Entity Framework : Is it possible to create an entity that is not mapped on a table of my database?
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Entity Framework : Is it possible to create an entity that is not mapped on a table of my database?
The Entity Framework is really about auto-generating classes that have all the guts to be easily used in Web Services and connected to Databases. If you don’t need those capabilities of EF, then all you are really doing is using a UI to make your Entity Classes, rather than just coding them out by hand. It’s certainly possible, but you don’t gain much by doing so and end up with a lot of auto-generated bloat in your code base.
Indeed, since EF does it “a certain way” you lose some flexibility that is otherwise available to you by defining your own Entity Classes in source.