Decoupling an ASP.NET MVC application from Entity Framework

Question

If I have this project structure

• Foo.Data
  • reference EntityFramework
• Foo.Business
  • reference Foo.Data
• Foo.Web
  • reference Foo.Business

Isn't that supposed to allow me to prevent adding a reference to EntityFramework from Foo.Web?

How can I call System.Data.Entity.Database.SetInitializer() from my global.asax.cs without adding the EntityFramework reference?

Answer 1

What you can do is create a InitializeDatabase() function in your Foo.Business project which in-turn calls System.Data.Entity.Database.SetInitializer(). You can then call InitializeDatabase() from your Foo.Web project which already has a reference to Foo.Business