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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635870

Length 828 pages

Edition 8th Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER

3. Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

7. Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

8. Working with Common .NET Types

9. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

10. Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

11. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

12. Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

13. Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

14. Building and Consuming Web Services

15. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

16. Epilogue

17. Index

10 Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

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This chapter is about reading from and writing to relational data stores, such as SQLite and SQL Server, by using the object-to-data store mapping technology named Entity Framework Core (EF Core).This chapter will cover the following topics:

Understanding modern databases
Setting up EF Core in a .NET project
Defining EF Core models
Querying EF Core models
Loading and tracking patterns with EF Core
Modifying data with EF Core

Understanding modern databases

Two of the most common places to store data are in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite, or in a NoSQL database such as Azure Cosmos DB, Redis, MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra.Relational databases were invented in the 1970s. They are queried with Structured Query Language (SQL). At the time, data storage costs were high, so they reduced data duplication as...