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Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

By : Tamir Dresher, Amir Zuker, Shay Friedman
Book Image

Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

By: Tamir Dresher, Amir Zuker, Shay Friedman

Overview of this book

Today, full-stack development is the name of the game. Developers who can build complete solutions, including both backend and frontend products, are in great demand in the industry, hence being able to do so a desirable skill. However, embarking on the path to becoming a modern full-stack developer can be overwhelmingly difficult, so the key purpose of this book is to simplify and ease the process. This comprehensive guide will take you through the journey of becoming a full-stack developer in the realm of the web and .NET. It begins by implementing data-oriented RESTful APIs, leveraging ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework. Afterward, it describes the web development field, including its history and future horizons. Then, you’ll build webbased Single-Page Applications (SPAs) by learning about numerous popular technologies, namely TypeScript, Angular, React, and Vue. After that, you’ll learn about additional related concerns involving deployment, hosting, and monitoring by leveraging the cloud; specifically, Azure. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build, deploy, and monitor cloud-based, data-oriented, RESTful APIs, as well as modern web apps, using the most popular frameworks and technologies.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
Index

Saving data


The DbContext class provided by EF Core is designed to work as a Unit Of Work (https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/unitOfWork.html) that stores and tracks all the objects in the model. As a Unit Of WorkDbContext lets you add an object for tracking, and then we set the EntityState parameter of the object so that DbContext can perform the correct database operation (INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE) when needed—that is, when calling the Save() or SaveAsync() methods. 

 

When defining your instance of DbContext, you added properties of the DbContexttype for each entity you wanted your model to include. The DbContext is a special type of collection that is aware of the EntityState objects, and lets you control them with simple methods such asAdd()orRemove().

Note

EF Core scans the graph objects that are being pointed to by the object you add to it and automatically adds the referenced objects if needed.

Here is an example of how products are added in the GiveNTake application:

//ProductsController...