Introduction

This chapter will cover more advanced features of Entity Framework Core. These include some scenarios that more seasoned users will miss.

One of these scenarios is bulk updates and deletes. After some basic usage of an ORM, users will easily find out that it doesn't make much sense to load entities just for deleting or modifying them. We will make use of an external library to make it possible.

If you have a big model, with possibly tens of tables, you will definitely want to generate the class model automatically, and sure enough, Entity Framework Core can do it.

Multitenancy is very popular nowadays, and we will see how we can implement it on the data side of things.

Soft deletes and auditing come in handy when we cannot afford to drop records from the database and wish to see who was the last person who changed a record.

Finally, logging is a must have, and can save us ours of debugging.

We'll see all of this and more; hope you find it instructive!