"The most comprehensive reference for EF Core that does—or ever will—exist." - Stephen Byrne, Intel Corporation

Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition teaches you to write flawless database interactions for .NET applications.

Summary

Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition is an in-depth guide to reading and writing databases with EF Core. Revised from the bestselling original edition, it’s filled with over 100 diagrams, code snippets, and examples—including building and scaling your own bookselling web application. Learn from author Jon Smith’s extensive experience working with EF Core in production, as you discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing. All of the book’s code is available on GitHub.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Entity Framework radically simplifies data access in .NET applications. This easy-to-use object-relational mapper (ORM) lets you write database code in pure C#. It automatically maps classes to database tables and enables queries with standard LINQ commands. It even generates SQL, so you don’t have to!

About the book

Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition teaches you to write flawless database interactions for .NET applications. Following relevant examples from author Jon Smith’s extensive experience, you’ll progress quickly from EF basics to advanced techniques. In addition to the latest EF features, this book addresses performance, security, refactoring, and unit testing. This updated edition also contains new material on NoSQL databases.

What's inside

Configure EF to define every table and column

Update your schema as your app grows

Integrating EF with existing C# application

Write and test business logic for database access

Applying a Domain-Driven Design to EF Core

Getting the best performance out of EF Core

About the reader

For .NET developers familiar with relational databases.

About the author

Jon P. Smith is a freelance software developer and architect with a special focus on .NET and Azure.

Table of Contents

PART 1

1 Introduction to Entity Framework Core

2 Querying the database

3 Changing the database content

4 Using EF Core in business logic

5 Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications

6 Tips and techniques for reading and writing with EF Core

PART 2

7 Configuring nonrelational properties

8 Configuring relationships

9 Handling database migrations

10 Configuring advanced features and handling concurrency conflicts

11 Going deeper into the DbContext

PART 3

12 Using entity events to solve business problems

13 Domain-Driven Design and other architectural approaches

14 EF Core performance tuning

15 Master class on performance-tuning database queries

16 Cosmos DB, CQRS, and other database types

17 Unit testing EF Core applications