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Start your free trialJannung Kusdiantoro
6,743 Pointsthe concept
i still did not quite understand how the class was built, can you tell me the easy way how to set a one-to-one relationship and one-to-many relationship?
4 Answers
James Churchill
Treehouse TeacherJannung,
The video that you link to is about creating an explicit bridge table for a many-to-many relationship, though your question is about how to define a one-to-one or one-to-many relationship. Is it how to define relationships in general that you're still struggling a bit with?
It might help to talk through an actual example, preferably something you're familiar with. Can you think of a real-world collection of something that we could work up a data model for?
Thanks ~James
James Churchill
Treehouse TeacherJannung,
To try to answer your question "...what class or instance do i need to create a database? And why do we need that?"
Entity Framework (EF) isn't absolutely necessary in order to work with data in a .NET application, but developers often find it helpful to use. EF is what is known as an ORM (Object Relational Mapper).
ORMs map data (typically from a database) to objects in your application. The "objects" in this case are often referred to as "entities". In EF, entities are just plain old C# classes. Here's an example of a "Person" entity class.
public class Person
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
In order to use the entity to retrieve and persist data to a database, we need what is known as a database context. The context does all of the heavy lifting when using EF. Here's an example of a database context class.
public class Context : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Person> People { get; set; }
}
All of these details are covered in the Entity Framework Basics course. You might also find it help to familiarize yourself with relational databases, by taking our SQL Basics course.
https://teamtreehouse.com/library/sql-basics
I hope that this helps.
Thanks ~James
Jannung Kusdiantoro
6,743 PointsThe video on the link was the last video (so far) i've watch. But i still did have a problem how you put that code, I need an explanation about what code/syntax should i provide to write the database. I'm interested in this project.
Jannung Kusdiantoro
6,743 PointsBy syntax/code, what class or instance do i need to create a database? And why do we need that?