Entity Framework - Tooling. EdmGen.exe - Generating SSDL, CSDL, MSL from Northwind.

posted by  techgeek (12)  16 months ago (mtaulty.com)

As a "Hello World" thing to do, I went ahead and built a new console application in Visual Studio 2008 and then added references to the Entity Framework (System.Data.Entity.dll from the GAC).

I then went off to build myself a model, I didn't want to type one in :-) so I first looked at the edmgen.exe tool for creating one for me.

Remembering that;

• SSDL - Store Schema Definition Language (i.e. what the DB looks like)
• CSDL - Conceptual Schema Definition Language (i.e. what your conceptual model looks like)
• MSL - Mapping Sc