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C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

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C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

Overview of this book

If you want to build powerful cross-platform applications with C# 7 and .NET Core, then this book is for you. First, we’ll run you through the basics of C#, as well as object-oriented programming, before taking a quick tour through the latest features of C# 7 such as tuples, pattern matching, out variables, and so on. After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, we’ll dive into the .NET Standard 1.6 class libraries, covering topics such as performance, monitoring, debugging, serialization and encryption. The final section will demonstrate the major types of application that you can build and deploy cross-device and cross-platform. In this section, we’ll cover Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, web applications, mobile apps, and web services. Lastly, we’ll look at how you can package and deploy your applications so that they can be hosted on all of today’s most popular platforms, including Linux and Docker. By the end of the book, you’ll be armed with all the knowledge you need to build modern, cross-platform applications using C# and .NET Core.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Manipulating data with EF Core


It is easy to insert, update, and delete entities using EF Core.

Inserting entities

At the bottom of the Main method, after the foreach statement, add the following code to insert a new product and relist all products:

    var newProduct = new Product 
    { 
      CategoryID = 6, // Meat & Poultry 
      ProductName = "Bob's Burger", 
      UnitPrice = 500M 
    }; 
    // mark product as added in change tracking 
    db.Products.Add(newProduct); 
    // save tracked changes to database 
    db.SaveChanges(); 
    foreach (var item in db.Products) 
    { 
      WriteLine($"{item.ProductID}: {item.ProductName} costs       
      {item.UnitPrice:$#,##0.00}"); 
    } 

Rerun the application and enter 50. You will see that the product has been inserted:

78: Bob's Burger costs $500.00

Updating entities

Add the following code to increase the price of the first product with a name that begins...