Question

I am a newbie to ASP.net & MVC 2, and have understood the basic concepts of how views, routes and controllers are implemented in it. Having great trouble with the MVC 2 “Models” though because I have always avoided ORM’s.

Please point me to some good ASP.net MVC web application tutorials that use ADO.net Entity Framework with many tables. In particular, I want to understand repository pattern better and how to insert / update data into related multiple tables. (The NerdDinner tutorial was unsatisfactory).

(P.S: Prefer tutorials in C#, but VB is ok too).

Answer 1

There is probably no example with a lot of tables because every author shows just a concept but I think that the following examples are more complex (with more layers) than NerdDinner.

http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/agile-entity-framework-4-repository-part-1-model-and-poco-classes/

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ASP_NET_MVC_WITH_EF.aspx

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ef4

http://kigg.codeplex.com/

http://kandaalpha.codeplex.com/

http://1code.codeplex.com/

Worth to take a look at

http://nsk.codeplex.com/

http://codecampserver.codeplex.com/

http://mvctimeplanner.codeplex.com/

Hope it helps.