Validating simple properties

Let's see how we can use attributes to validate properties.

Getting ready

We will be using NuGet Package Manager to install the Entity Framework Core 1 package, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore. We will also be using a SQL Server database for storing the data, so we will also need Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.

Finally, xunit is the package we will be using for the unit tests and dotnet-text-xunit adds tooling support for Visual Studio. Note that the UnitTests project is a .NET Core App 1.0 (netcoreapp1.0), where Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design is configured as a build dependency and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools is set as a tool.

Open Using EF Core Solution from the included source code examples.

Execute the database setup script from the code samples included with this recipe. This can be found in the DataAccess project within the Database folder.

How to do it…

Let's create a sample entity and a validation attribute, and modify our context to take...