Hello Imar,

What is the difference between the code generator strategy property in the ADO.NET model?

In your book, you said that the code generator strategy property will have either option DEFAULT or NONE, but in my IDE (Visual Studio Express Web 2013), the code generator strategy has T4 or Legacy Object Context. Can you briefly explain which one I should choose and what each of them does?

Thanks

With T4 you get the ability to override the generated code by modifying the T4 templates. By default, the code that generates uses EF Code First so your classes don't inherit a base class and it uses the new DbContext. With the legacy version, the code creates classes that inherit EntityObject and use ObjectContext for the database access.

You probably want to choose the T4 option for new projects as it'll be easier to work with.

Cheers,

Imar

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Thanks Imar, that would work.