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.NET Core 2.0 By Example

By : Neha Shrivastava, Rishabh Verma
Book Image

.NET Core 2.0 By Example

By: Neha Shrivastava, Rishabh Verma

Overview of this book

With the rise in the number of tools and technologies available today, developers and architects are always exploring ways to create better and smarter solutions. Before, the differences between target platforms was a major roadblock, but that's not the case now. .NET Core 2.0 By Example will take you on an exciting journey to building better software. This book provides fresh and relevant content to .NET Core 2.0 in a succinct format that’s enjoyable to read. It also delivers concepts, along with the implications, design decisions, and potential pitfalls you might face when targeting Linux and Windows systems, in a logical and simple way. With the .NET framework at its center, the book comprises of five varied projects: a multiplayer Tic-tac-toe game; a real-time chat application, Let'sChat; a chatbot; a microservice-based buying-selling application; and a movie booking application. You will start each chapter with a high-level overview of the content, followed by the above example applications described in detail. By the end of each chapter, you will not only be proficient with the concepts, but you’ll also have created a tangible component in the application. By the end of the book, you will have built five solid projects using all the tools and support provided by the .NET Core 2.0 framework.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing Entity Framework


So what is Entity Framework (EF)? Is it some other fancy framework that I need to learn? If these thoughts are coming to mind, get rid of them, as EF is just a set of .NET APIs for accessing data. EF is the official data access tool from Microsoft. Like most Microsoft products, it originated from Microsoft Research, and later it was adopted by the ADO.NET team as the next innovation in Microsoft's data access technology. EF has evolved over time. It had a sluggish start in 2008 when developers found it hard to digest a new way of accessing data. But with EF4 (yes, the second version of EF was 4, as it was aligned with .NET 4), it had become the norm to use EF for data accessing with .NET. Continuing the journey, it became open source in version EF6 and moved to CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com). This opened up new avenues for EF. As it became open source, the community could make contributions as well. Now that CodePlex is archived, EF6 has moved to GitHub and...