contents

 

Titlepage

Copyright

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

Who should read this book

How this book is organized

About the code

Code conventions

Book forum

Online resources

about the author

about the cover illustration

Part 1: Getting started

Chapter 1: Introduction to Entity FrameworkCore

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

1.4.1 The downsides of O/RMs

1.5 What about NoSQL?

1.6 Your first EF Core application

1.6.1 What you need to install

1.6.2 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

1.8.1 The classes that map to the database—Book and Author

1.8.2 The application’s DbContext

1.9 Looking under the hood of EF Core

1.9.1 Modeling the database

1.9.2 Reading data from the database

1.9.3 Updating the database

1.10 Should you use EF Core in your next project?

1.10.1 Latest generation