Creating EF 6 Models from the Designer and Code

The CData ADO.NET Provider for Asana includes an Entity Framework (EF) Core provider. The following sections show how to build an EF data model that surfaces access to Asana tables.

Register the EF Core Provider

Before a data model can be defined, it is necessary to first register the EF Core provider in the target application.

EF Console Application

EFCore Console Application outlines how to register the EF Core provider in a console app.

ASP.NET Application

Code-First

The code-first approach gives developers granular control over the data exposed in the data model. Code-First Approach shows how to manually define the entity definitions.

Scaffolding

The data model can be inferred automatically (scaffolded) via Package Manager Console commands. Reverse Engineering (Scaffolding) shows how to reverse engineer a data model using scaffolding.