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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Mastering ASP.NET Web API Build powerful HTTP services and make the most of the ASP.NET Core Web API platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463951
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Malendra Hurbuns Malendra Hurbuns
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Mithun Pattankar Mithun Pattankar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding HTTP and REST 3. Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API 4. Controllers, Actions, and Models 5. Implementing Routing 6. Middleware and Filters 7. Perform Unit and Integration Testing 8. Web API Security 9. Integration with Database 10. Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging 11. Optimization and Performance 12. Hosting and Deployment 13. Modern Web Frontends

Integrating ASP.NET Core Web API and an existing database using Entity Framework 6.x

Entity Framework (EF) is ORM for .NET world. EF, just like other ORM, can be used to create new databases and tables or use it against an existing database.

We will be building ASP.NET Core Web API integrating against existing database using Entity Framework 6.1. We will use the Microsoft SQL Server learning database AdventureWorks2014.

EF 6.1 is an ORM built with full .NET framework, meaning it works with full .NET apps only. To achieve this, we will need to create ASP.NET Core for full .NET Framework instead of .NET Core.

We will create AdvWorksAPI (ASP.NET Core Web API) integrated with the AdventureWorks2014 database using EF 6.1, by following these steps.

Restoring the AdventureWorks2014 database...

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