Code-First or Database-First, how to choose?

Question

Let us suppose we are going to start new project - application that contains some business logic, user interface on ASP.NET, WPF or both of them. We\'d like to use ORM or DA

Answer 1

Start by not directly thinking about either, rather "model" (preferably on paper) what parts your application will have from the users point of view.

If you have a clear mental picture of that model, You can divide the parts up in common and specific little elements which you can translate to both object definitions and database tables.

I find this method to cut database normalization time and effort significantly.