Cutting Edge - Reflections on Code First, Persistence and Domain Modeling

Code First is a piece of functionality you find in Entity Framework (EF) that lets you model database tables using plain .NET classes. Frankly, I think the name Code First is a bit misleading, but the work it does under the hood is crystal clear. Code First lays out the structure of the database being used and provides an all-round object-oriented API to work with stored data.