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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

Creating custom conventions


Entity Framework Code First (4.1) introduced mapping conventions. Basically, Entity Framework would figure out certain patterns from the domain model and would configure things appropriately. In subsequent versions, these conventions were made customizable, meaning one could define and apply bespoke ones for our specific use cases. This is very useful, because it prevents us from writing the same code over and over. Some examples of custom conventions might include the following:

  • Defining the maximum length for string properties

  • Showing whether certain properties are mandatory or not

  • Automatically setting cascading behaviors

Unfortunately, version 1.0 of Entity Framework Core dropped this; fortunately, it is still possible to achieve with some extra work.

Getting ready

We will be using the NuGet Package Manager to install the Entity Framework Core 1 package, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore. We will also be using a SQL Server database to store the data, so we will also...