I was looking through the CTP and noticed that in the Target.ssdl file that there are "EntityContainer", "EntitySet", "EntityType" elements defined (same naming style as for the Model.csdl). This confused me a little as I was expecting to find 'Target' (schema) information instead of Entity information. Should these be named "TargetContainer", "TargetSet", & "TargetType" or am I misunderstanding the purpose of the Target.ssdl file
Cheers,
-Mat
Target.ssdl - naming convention for elements in this file
Dietz
In ADO.Net vNext, the database can be modeled in EDM terms -- the SSDL is a manifestation of the database schema information in EDM terms. Thus, we represent tables as EntitySets and databases as EntityContainers. Thus, in the Northwind database with an "authors" table, the EntityContainer is "Northwind", the EntitySet is "authors" and the EntityType is "author" (where all the column declarations for the authors table are given). We are currently looking at providing syntactic sugar for declaring tables and databases in more direct terms (i.e., how one declares them for a regular database system) for our next update to the bits.