What is the best book or study material to study POCO in asp.net?

Question

What is the best book to study Plain Old CLR Object (POCO) in .NET?

Answer 1

Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach By Larry Tenny, Zeeshan Hirani

Answer 2

A good introductory link: Persistence Ignorance (POCO) Adapter for Entity Framework V1

Answer 3

I think it does not require to study from any e-book. Because POCO is the simplest class that is used to contain some data for manipulating with database.

Auto-generated POCO object should has only 2 types of properties.

1. Property that contain data of each column.
2. Navigating Property that links to other related table.

For more information, you can read at other similar question at Entity Framework 4 / POCO - Where to start?.

If you does not like auto-generated style, you can try new pattern like Code-First at Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database . This pattern makes source code look quite cleaner because you does not require to reference to any ralated EF dll. So you can use it in any context.

PS. According from PDC 2010, Code First will be released at Q1, 2011 and the last beta will be availabled Dec, 2010.