WebApi & EntityFramework with POCO

Create two projects

1. Creating two projects in one Solution, which including a SQL Server Project, and a Web Api Project.

   
   
   

   Two Project

SQL Server Project

2. Install EntityFramework. from NuGet Package Management, and Entity Framework Reverse POCO from Extension and Updates in the menu of Tools.

   
   
   

   From NuGet
   
   
   

   From Extension and Updates

3. Create a database from your SSMS(SQL Server Management Studio)

   
   
   

   Create Empty Database

4. Import the Database you just created to the SQL Server Project.

   
   
   

   Import to SQL Server Project

5. Create three tables, Student.sql, Course.sql, and StudentCourse.sql. Because student to course is the relationship of many-to-many. Here we should add a cross table between them, that is StudentCourse.sql.

   
   
   

   Student.sql
   
   
   

   Course.sql
   
   
   

   StudentCourse.sql

6. Create Foreign Key for both of StudentId and CourseId columns.

   
   
   

   ForeignKey

7. Right-Click the SQL Server Project, and then Publish to the database, and don't forget to switch the platform version to appropriate one.

   
   
   

   Publish
   
   
   

   Target Platform Version

Web API Project

8. Create a POCO file, that actually is the context file.

   
   
   

   XXXContext.tt

9. Edit configuration file from your Context file.

   
   
   

   XXXContext File

10. Insert to the .Web.config file.

    
    
    

11. In the folder of XXXContext.cs, find the constructor method of XXXContect class, add line inside of it.
    base.Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false;

    
    
    

    Unable the ProxyCreationEnabled property

All Set!