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If a developer needs to introduce certain changes or adjust the behavior of Microsoft’s POCO or Self-Tracking templates of the EntityFramework model or to write a custom template from scratch based on Microsoft’s standard template, he or she will have to learn how these templates work.

When studying Microsoft’s POCO and Self-Tracking generation templates, I have come across significant difficulties in understanding the exact way these templates work, since they are far from being trivial. In this blog article, I shall endeavor to describe their basic functions, explain some points that might be so easy to understand, as well as the structure of the templates. Hopefully, this information will prove useful and time- and effort-saving to all developers who need to work with Microsoft’s generation templates for EntityFramework models.
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