Using the Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC applications

There is not much difference between using the Entity Framework in a console application and ASP.NET MVC application. Now, we are going to build a simple application with a single screen as shown in the following image. In this screen, we will have a form where the user will enter the information about the employee; once the user submits the form, the information will be saved to the database and reflected in the following screenshots:

We can create a simple Model for the employee. We need to build a ViewModel for this View, as we need to get the employee information from the user and we need to show a list of employees as well on the same screen.

Let us create an ASP.NET Core application, adding the employee and showing the list of employees. The following is the step-by-step instructions to create the application for the previously mentioned objective:

1. Create an ASP.NET Core project in Visual Studio by selecting an empty ASP.NET 5 application...