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ASP.NET Core 8 and Angular

You're reading from   ASP.NET Core 8 and Angular Full-stack web development with ASP.NET Core 8 and Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805129936
Length 804 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Valerio De Sanctis Valerio De Sanctis
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing ASP.NET and Angular 2. Getting Ready FREE CHAPTER 3. Looking Around 4. Front-End and Back-End Interactions 5. Data Model with Entity Framework Core 6. Fetching and Displaying Data 7. Forms and Data Validation 8. Code Tweaks and Data Services 9. Back-End and Front-End Debugging 10. ASP.NET Core and Angular Unit Testing 11. Authentication and Authorization 12. Progressive Web Apps 13. Beyond REST – Web API with GraphQL 14. Real-Time Updates with SignalR 15. Windows, Linux, and Azure Deployment 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Creating the database using Code-First

Before going further, let’s do a quick checklist:

  • Are we done with our entities? Yes
  • Do we have a DBMS and a WorldCities database available? Yes
  • Have we gone through all of the required steps we need to complete to actually create and fill in the aforementioned database using Code-First? No

As a matter of fact, we need to take care of two more things:

  • Set up an appropriate Database Context
  • Enable Code-First Data Migrations support within our project

Within the following sections, we’re going to fill all of these gaps and eventually fill our WorldCities database.

Setting up the DbContext

To interact with data as objects/entity classes, Entity Framework Core uses the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext class, also called DbContext or simply Context. This class is in charge of all of the entity objects during runtime, including populating them with data from the...

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