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Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0

You're reading from   Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0 Dive into entities, relationships, querying, performance optimization, and more, to learn efficient data-driven development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294133
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prabhakaran Anbazhagan Prabhakaran Anbazhagan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kickstart - Introduction to Entity Framework Core 2. The Other Way Around – Database First Approach FREE CHAPTER 3. Relationships – Terminology and Conventions 4. Building Relationships – Understanding Mapping 5. Know the Validation – Explore Inbuilt Validations 6. Save Yourself – Hack Proof Your Entities 7. Going Raw – Leveraging SQL Queries in LINQ 8. Query Is All We Need – Query Object Pattern 9. Fail Safe Mechanism – Transactions 10. Make It Real – Handling Concurrencies 11. Performance – It's All About Execution Time 12. Isolation – Building a Multi-Tenant Database

Registering context in services (.NET Core DI)


The warning displayed in the OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder) method needs to be addressed. So let's remove that method (highlighted in the following code) and perform configuration inside the Startup.cs file using dependency injection.

Refactoring the OnConfiguring() method

If we recap on how we have configured the database context, the auto-generated code had a hardcoded connection string used for configuration. To avoid it, we should have a mechanism to pass on the database context options to the DbContext base class; let's see how to do it:

    public partial class MasteringEFCoreDbFirstContext : DbContext
    {
      public virtual DbSet<Blog> Blog { get; set; }
      public virtual DbSet<Post> Post { get; set; }
protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder
       optionsBuilder)
      {
        // Move this connection string to config file later
        optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(@"Server...
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Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0
Published in: Dec 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788294133
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