Guide to Entity Framework with

Summary 170
Chapter 7: Working with the Object Services Layer 
171
What are Object Services? 
172
Features at a glance 
174
The SecurityDbEntity's DbContext class 
174
Querying data as in-memory objects 
176
Using Entity Framework 7 
176
Performing CRUD operations on objects 
177
Attaching and detaching objects to and from ObjectContext 
178
Serializing and deserializing entity instances 
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Change tracking and identity resolution using ObjectContext 
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Understanding the code-first, model-first, and database-first 
 
approaches to domain design 
183
Using the code-first approach 
184
Using the model-first approach 
185
Using the database-first approach 
188
Inheritance in Entity Framework 
188
Table-per-Hierarchy 
189
Table-per-Type 
190
Table-per-Concrete Type 
190
Implementing complex types in the EDM 
192
State management, identity management, and relationship 
 
management 193
Reading objects from the Security database 
196
Inserting objects from the Security database 
197
Editing objects from the Security database 
198
Deleting objects from the Security database 
198
Summary 199
Chapter 8: Working with WCF Data Services 
201
Introducing WCF Data Services 
202
How do WCF Data Services and Web Services differ? 
202
What is Representational State Transfer (REST)? 
202
Why use WCF Data Services? 
204
The features at a glance 
204