From a sample to your own project

[EasyQuery GitHub repositories](https://github.com/easyquery) contain several sample projects that demonstrate how to use EasyQuery library on different platforms, with differen frameworks and in different scenarios. The best way to start with EasyQuery is to choose the sample closest to your scenario and modify it according to your requirements (your DB, data model, environment, layout, styles, etc). So, in this section we are going to describe how to do it.

Getting Started

Copying the EasyQuery's code from a sample to your project

If you have already modified one of our sample projects to make it work with your DB, the next step will be to copy the EasyQuery's code to your own solution. This article describes how to do it.

Upgrade instructions. From Version 3.x to 5.x for .NET Framework 4.x projects

Using MS SQL instead of Access in WebDemo sample project

In this article, you will find the detailed instructions how to modify WebDemoCS or WebDemoAjaxCS to make it work with SQL Server instead of Access

Entity class

Represents one entity

Using EqMvcDemoEF sample with your own DB context

This article contains a brief instruction how to modify EqMvcDemoEF sample project to make it work with your own context class

Getting started for WPF

You will be able to apply EasyQuery WPF to your application, performing all the instructions in this article

Entity class

Represents one entity

Getting started for Silverlight

This article will guide you through all steps necessary to apply EasyQuery.NET to your application, with extract examples

Entity class

Represents one entity

Building dynamic queries with EasyQuery and Entity Framework

Here we describe how EasyQuery helps to implement a query building UI for creating custom, dynamic queries in .NET projects which use Entity Framework (6.x)

Getting started for WPF

Getting started tutorial on how to use EasyQuery components to implement an ad-hoc query builder in WPF application.

Entities page

This page describes entities participating in the data model and their attributes.

Upgrading to 5.x: WinForms and WPF projects

This tutorial describes how to modify your old Windows Forms or WPF project with EasyQuery 3.x to upgrade to EasyQuery version 5.2.0 (or higher). Please note. Version 5.2.0 of EasyQuery works only on .NET Framework 4.6.1 or higher. So, if your project targets a lower version of .NET Framework - you will need to update Target Framework for your project first (right-click on the project in Solution

Getting started for Windows Forms

This article shows how to apply EasyQuery.NET to your application

Dynamic queries for ASP.NET Core projects with Entity Framework Core

It takes a few minutes to add a new page with all necessary UI for building dynamic queries and to setup a middleware that will process all requests from that page, convert those request to the queries to your DB and return the result set back for visualization. This step is necessary to get the trial keys for EasyQuery framework. One for ASP.NET Core packages and another one - for EasyQuery.JS scripts. To simplify this task EasyQuery includes a Razor UI library package ( Korzh.EasyQuery.RazorUI ) that contains several predefined pages which you can use in your projects. For example, there is an "advaced search" page which is available via /EasyQuery/AdvancedSearch .

Hide some entities and/or attributes

Here we explain how to implement different ways to limit the quantity of entities and attributes shown in Data Model

Getting started for Windows Forms

Here we will describe how to add the UI for advanced search and data filtration in your Windows Forms application.

ASP.NET Core tutorials

This section contains all getting started articles for the version 5.x branch of EasyQuery for .NET Core. Please note if you have a project for .NET Framework (version 4.x or earlier) - please look at the articles in [$$-Version 3.x-$$](/$aid/eqdn-6f1z3hf0ml4u) section.