contents

 

foreword

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

about the author

about the cover illustration

Part 1 Getting Started

1 Introduction to Entity Framework Core

1.1 What you’ll learn from this book

1.2 My “lightbulb moment” with Entity Framework

1.3 Some words for existing EF6.x developers

1.4 An overview of EF Core

The downsides of O/RMs

1.5 What about NoSQL?

1.6 Your first EF Core application

What you need to install

Creating your own .NET Core console app with EF Core

1.7 The database that MyFirstEfCoreApp will access

1.8 Setting up the MyFirstEfCoreApp application

The application’s DbContext