If I have an .edmx file, is there a way to programmatically access it? I could use XDocument but maybe there is already an api for this?
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If I have an .edmx file, is there a way to programmatically access it? I could use XDocument but maybe there is already an api for this?
EDMX file is only for designer. It is even not distributed with your application as is. EDMX contains four components – SSDL, MSL, CSDL and designer information. First three components are extracted during building application and are stored either as resource XML files in the assembly or shipped as external XML files. These files can be read as any other XML files. The only API (present in .NET) which can load them is
EntityConnection/MetadataWorkspacein EF.