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ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

You're reading from   ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5 Full-stack web development with .NET Core and Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293600
Length 550 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Valerio De Sanctis Valerio De Sanctis
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Jürgen Gutsch Jürgen Gutsch
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Preface 1. Getting Ready FREE CHAPTER 2. Backend with .NET Core 3. Frontend with Angular 4. Data Model with Entity Framework Core 5. Client-Server Interactions 6. Style Sheets and UI Layout 7. Forms and Data Validation 8. Authentication and Authorization 9. Advanced Topics 10. Finalization and Deployment

Setting up the DbContext


To interact with data as objects/entity classes, Entity Framework Core uses the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext class, also called DbContext or simply Context. This class is in charge of all the entity objects during runtime, including populating them with data from the Database, keeping track of changes, and persisting them to the Database during CRUD operations.

We can easily create our very own DbContext class for our project--which we will call ApplicationDbContext--by doing the following:

  1. From Solution Explorer, right-click on the /Data/ folder we created a while ago and add a new ApplicationDbContext.cs class file.
  2. Fill it up with the following code:
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Metadata;

namespace TestMakerFreeWebApp.Data
{
    public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
    {
        #region Constructor
        public ApplicationDbContext(DbContextOptions...
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