Chapter 13. Working with Stored Procedures When Function Mapping Won’t Do

In Chapter 6, you learned about function mapping for stored procedures in the Entity Data Model (EDM). Mapping insert, update, and delete stored procedures to entities is the simplest way to use stored procedures in the EDM. But the scenarios in Chapter 6 cover only a narrow scope of the types of stored procedures many developers leverage in their applications.

Although version 1 of the Entity Framework has plenty of support for stored procedures, the Designer doesn’t support everything the model can do, which in some cases makes implementing stored procedures somewhat taxing.