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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

Defining relationships


Now that we have built our main entity skeleton, we need to create some relationships between them. We want to be able to do stuff like retrieve a Quiz, then browse to their related Questions and get the available Answers. We'll also need to fetch the Result(s) for any given score, find out the ApplicationUser who made the quiz, and so on. To do this, we have to implement a set of entity-related properties that Entity Framework will load on demand using its default Lazy-Load retrieval feature.

The first thing we’ll do is add a new region to our Quiz class containing these three new properties:

#region Lazy-Load Properties
/// <summary>
/// The quiz author: it will be loaded
/// on first use thanks to the EF Lazy-Loading feature.
/// </summary>
[ForeignKey("UserId")]
public virtual ApplicationUser User { get; set; }

/// <summary>
/// A list containing all the questions related to this quiz. 
/// It will be populaed on first use thanks to the EF Lazy...
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