Entity Framework Core in Action

Jon P Smith | 4.19 | 35 ratings and reviews

Ranked #62 in ASP.NET

Summary

Entity Framework Core in Action teaches you how to access and update relational data from .NET applications. Following the crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and around 100 diagrams, you'll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

There's a mismatch in the way OO programs and relational databases represent data. Entity Framework is an object-relational mapper (ORM) that bridges this gap, making it radically easier to query and write to databases from a .NET application. EF creates a data model that matches the structure of your OO code so you can query and write to your database using standard LINQ commands. It will even automatically generate the model from your database schema.

About the Book

Using crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and around 100 diagrams, Entity Framework Core in Action teaches you how to access and update relational data from .NET applications. You'l start with a clear breakdown of Entity Framework, long with the mental model behind ORM. Then you'll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and even unit testing. As you go, you'll address common data access challenges and learn how to handle them with Entity Framework.

What's Inside

Querying a relational database with LINQ
Using EF Core in business logic
Integrating EF with existing C# applications
Applying domain-driven design to EF Core
Getting the best performance out of EF Core
Covers EF Core 2.0 and 2.1

About the Reader

For .NET developers with some awareness of how relational databases work.

About the Author

Jon P Smith is a full-stack developer with special focus on .NET Core and Azure.

Table of Contents

Part 1 - Getting started
Introduction to Entity FrameworkCore
Querying the database
Changing the database content
Using EF Core in business logic
Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications
Part 2 - Entity Framework in depth
Configuring nonrelational properties
Configuring relationships
Configuring advanced features and handling concurrency conflicts
Going deeper into the DbContext
Part 3 - Using Entity Framework Core in real-world applications
Useful software patterns for EF Core applications
Handling database migrations
EF Core performance tuning
A worked example of performance tuning
Different database types and EF Core services
Unit testing EF Core applications
Appendix A - A brief introduction to LINQ
Appendix B - Early information on EF Core version 2.1 less

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