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Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ricardo Peres
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Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Ricardo Peres

Overview of this book

Entity Framework is a highly recommended Object Relation Mapping tool used to build complex systems. In order to survive in this growing market, the knowledge of a framework that helps provide easy access to databases, that is, Entity Framework has become a necessity. This book will provide .NET developers with this knowledge and guide them through working efficiently with data using Entity Framework Core. You will start off by learning how to efficiently use Entity Framework in practical situations. You will gain a deep understanding of mapping properties and find out how to handle validation in Entity Framework. The book will then explain how to work with transactions and stored procedures along with improving Entity Framework using query libraries. Moving on, you will learn to improve complex query scenarios and implement transaction and concurrency control. You will then be taught to improve and develop Entity Framework in complex business scenarios. With the concluding chapter on performance and scalability, this book will get you ready to use Entity Framework proficiently.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Object-relational mappers such as Entity Framework rely on mappings to translate Object-oriented concepts—classes, properties, references, inheritance – to the database world – composed of tables and columns – and vice versa. For example, a table normally translates to a .NET class, and its columns translate to the class properties.

Mapping entities and their properties is something that Entity Framework does automatically, and does generally well. There are some cases, however, in which we need to give it a hand. In this chapter, we will have a look at some special cases: it's going to be all about mappings.