Entity Framework Core in Action

Reading and storing data is a core part of any application, and .NET developers want database access to be easy and intuitive. Entity Framework Core is a .NET library designed to simplify data persistence, bridging the mismatch between the different structures of object-oriented code and relational databases.

Entity Framework Core in Action teaches developers how to add database functionality to .NET applications with EF Core.

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Getting started
Chapter 1 Introduction To Entity Frameworkcore
Chapter 2 Querying The Database
Chapter 3 Changing The Database Content
Chapter 4 Using Ef Core In Business Logic
Chapter 5 Using Ef Core In Asp.Net Core Web Applications

Part 2: Entity Framework in depth
Chapter 6 Configuring Nonrelational Properties
Chapter 7 Configuring Relationships
Chapter 8 Configuring Advanced Features And Handling Concurrency Conflicts
Chapter 9 Going Deeper Into The Dbcontext

Part 3: Using Entity Framework Core in real-world applications
Chapter 10 Useful Software Patterns For Ef Core Applications
Chapter 11 Handling Database Migrations
Chapter 12 Ef Core Performance Tuning
Chapter 13 A Worked Example Of Performance Tuning
Chapter 14 Different Database Types And Ef Core Services
Chapter 15 Unit Testing Ef Core Applications

Appendix A A brief introduction to LINQ
Appendix B Early information on EF Core version 2.1