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Is there anything that would aid us in designing/scaffolding View models from SQL Server database tables but would result in very lean classes? I know something like that exists for Rails, maybe there’s something similar in ASP.NET MVC?
I like what EF wizard creates but it’s too heavy – too much attributes, constraints, events and everything is attached to the entities so you can’t actually use them as View models (actually you can but it quickly becomes a pain).
I think you could use a POCO generator for your EF4 model instead of the default one. This is a link explaining how. LINK
I hope you can adapt it to fill your needs.
A POCO Class(Plain Old CLR Objects) is by definition a lightweight class, that is (maybe) what you’re looking for.