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C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development - Sixth Edition

By : Mark J. Price
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Book Image

C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development - Sixth Edition

5 (1)
By: Mark J. Price

Overview of this book

Extensively revised to accommodate all the latest features that come with C# 10 and .NET 6, this latest edition of our comprehensive guide will get you coding in C# with confidence. You’ll learn object-oriented programming, writing, testing, and debugging functions, implementing interfaces, and inheriting classes. The book covers the .NET APIs for performing tasks like managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, and working with the filesystem, async streams, and serialization. You’ll build and deploy cross-platform apps, such as websites and services using ASP.NET Core. Instead of distracting you with unnecessary application code, the first twelve chapters will teach you about C# language constructs and many of the .NET libraries through simple console applications. In later chapters, having mastered the basics, you’ll then build practical applications and services using ASP.NET Core, the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, and Blazor.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Manipulating data with EF Core

Inserting, updating, and deleting entities using EF Core is an easy task to accomplish.

DbContext maintains change tracking automatically, so the local entities can have multiple changes tracked, including adding new entities, modifying existing entities, and removing entities. When you are ready to send those changes to the underlying database, call the SaveChanges method. The number of entities successfully changed will be returned.

Inserting entities

Let's start by looking at how to add a new row to a table:

  1. In Program.cs, create a new method named AddProduct, as shown in the following code:
    static bool AddProduct(
      int categoryId, string productName, decimal? price)
    {
      using (Northwind db = new())
      {
        Product p = new()
        {
          CategoryId = categoryId,
          ProductName = productName,
          Cost = price
        };
        // mark product as added in change tracking
        db.Products.Add(p);
        // save tracked change...