This is a quick spin around Breeze. It sticks to the basics that a .NET client developer must know to work with Breeze. You won’t learn everything but you will acquire a foundation in breeze sufficient to build a simple application. You’ll know
how to query the persistence service for entities
how to write a query filter on the client and sort the results on the data tier
to await a task from Breeze while you wait for the service to respond; the task will tell you when the service is ready with results
the EntityManager maintains a local cache of entities that you’ve queried, added to, modified, and marked for deletion
the EntityType describes the details of an entity class, how it’s structured and how it behaves
how to use the EntityType to create new instances of entities
that a Breeze entity tracks changes, validates changes, and raises property changed events
how a Breeze entity can be bound to UI controls with WPF (or another data binding library)
how to save changes permanently to remote storage or temporarily to local storage on the device.
We’ve organized the “lap…” as a tour of the Todo sample application. We’ll detour occasionally into the automated teaching tests to clarify a point or find a more apt illustration.
You could just dive in. We think you’ll get more from the tour if you take these three preliminary steps:
Review “Start with NuGet”. It takes about 10 minutes. You might follow along and build the sample.
Try the Todo sample application and at least skim its documentation.
Try the DocCode teaching tests.
We’ll wait.
You’ve downloaded the code and experienced the Todo sample as a user would. It’s time to write a query.
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