Razor – A New View Engine for ASP.NET MVC 3

The Entity Framework and ASP.NET – Getting Started Part 2

The EntityDataSource Control

In the previous tutorial you created a web site, a database, and a data model. In this tutorial you work with the EntityDataSource control that ASP.NET provides in order to make it easy to work with an Entity Framework data model. You'll create a GridView control for displaying and editing student data, a DetailsView control for adding new students, and a DropDownList control for selecting a department (which you'll use later for displaying associated courses).

The Entity Framework and ASP.NET – Getting Started Part 1

Introduction

The Contoso University sample web application demonstrates how to create ASP.NET Web Forms applications using the Entity Framework. The sample application is a website for a fictional Contoso University. It includes functionality such as student admission, course creation, and instructor assignments.

This tutorial series uses the ASP.NET Web Forms model and assumes you know how to work with ASP.NET Web Forms in Visual Studio. If you prefer to work with the ASP.NET MVC framework, see the Creating Model Classes with the Entity Framework tutorial or the Getting Started with the Entity Framework using ASP.NET MVC tutorial series.

Overview

The application you’ll be building in these tutorials is a simple university website.

Users can view and update student, course, and instructor information. A few of the screens you'll create are shown below.