Adding Dynamic Data to MVC 3 w/ EF 4.1

Question

User-1882961111 posted

How can I add Dynamic Data to an existing MVC 3 app that is running EntityFramework 4.1?

I would also like to know if I could add MVC to an existing Dynamic Data project.

I've gone through quite a few blogs but many are older and I keep running into various problems. Is there any easy way to do this? Some tutorial for MVC 3?

kind of helpful tutorials:

http://blog.davidebbo.com/2011/01/using-dynamic-data-with-ef-code-first.html  ( this is cool, but how do I combine w/ MVC 3 ? )

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PlugInHybridsASPNETWebFormsAndASPMVCAndASPNETDynamicDataSideBySide.aspx ( only got webform working, not dynamicdata)

old tutorials..

http://padcom13.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-dynamicdata-to-mvc-application.html

http://haacked.com/archive/2008/06/11/aspnetmvc-and-dynamicdata.aspx (outdated link to nonexistent sample project)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scothu/archive/2008/06/23/how-to-add-dynamic-data-to-an-existing-web-site.aspx

Answer 1

User-330204900 posted

Sorry hometownstruc, I've not done any work with MVC since v2, however there is not reason why they will not play together I believe Scott Hanselman post is the best way to proceed. The posts are old but the principals are the same.

Answer 2

User-1882961111 posted

Thanks for your reply. I am starting to figure it out. Can you tell me if there is any support for Entity Framework complex types in Dynamic Data now? I might have to redesign my model to work with DD. It currently uses composition to simulate multiple inheritance but that gives way too many tables. I thought complex types would be a good solution but I saw they used to be unsupported in DD. Any change with that? Or workarounds that are easier than flattening my data model? Thanks.

Answer 3

User3866881 posted

Hello hometownstru：）

As far as I see……(Kindly correct me if I take you wrongly……)，No support directly for Complex type in DD。

Best reguards！