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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

Performing CRUD operations


We have already seen how to create CRUD operations right from scaffolding controllers to their corresponding views for the Blog model, so we will create them for the Post model in this section:

  1. Right-click on the Controllers folder and select Add | New Scaffolded Item.
  2.  Add Scaffold dialog box, select MVC Controller with views, using Entity Framework:

  1. In the Add Controller dialog box, select the appropriate Model class and Data Context class (Post and MasteringEFCoreDbFirstContext in our case) along with the auto-generated controller name, PostsController:

  1. Next click Add as shown in the following screenshot:

Scaffolded items

Note

The Blog URL should be displayed instead of the Blog ID, which was part of the scaffolding. As displaying the ID raises security issues and usability concerns, let's change this mapping to URL.

Let's start our changes from the Index.cshml file, where we have listed Blog.Id instead of Blog.Url: 

    @foreach (var item in Model) {
      <tr&gt...
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Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0
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