Getting Started

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.

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.

Getting started for EasyQuery ASP.NET MVC

This article will guide you through all steps necessary to apply EasyQuery ASP.NET to MVC web application

Getting started for Windows Forms

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

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.

Getting started for ASP.NET 4

Describes the steps you need to perform for applying EasyQuery ASP.NET to your MVC or WebForms project

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

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.

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.

Add query builder page from our MVC sample project in your own app

This article described how to set up an advanced search page in your web-application using EqMvcDemoDB project as a template.

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