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Apps and Services with .NET 8

You're reading from   Apps and Services with .NET 8 Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637133
Length 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET 2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF Core 4. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB 5. Multitasking and Concurrency 6. Using Popular Third-Party Libraries 7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization 8. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs 9. Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services 10. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions 11. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR 12. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL 13. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC 14. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core 15. Building Web Components Using Blazor 16. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI 17. Epilogue 18. Index

Defining GraphQL queries for EF Core models

Now that we have a basic GraphQL service operating successfully, let’s extend it to enable querying the Northwind database.

Adding support for EF Core

We must add another Hot Chocolate package to allow easy dependency service integration of our EF Core database context with GraphQL query classes:

  1. Add a package reference for Hot Chocolate integration with EF Core and a project reference to the Northwind database context project, as highlighted in the following markup:
    <ItemGroup>
      <PackageReference Include="HotChocolate.AspNetCore" Version="13.5.1" />
      <PackageReference Include="HotChocolate.Data.EntityFramework" 
                        Version="13.5.1" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
      <ProjectReference Include="..\..\Chapter03\Northwind.Common.DataContext
    .SqlServer\Northwind.Common.DataContext.SqlServer.csproj" />
    </ItemGroup...
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