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Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8

You're reading from   Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8 Learn techniques, patterns, and tools for building high-performance, robust, and scalable web APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610954
Length 804 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Xiaodi Yan Xiaodi Yan
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Web APIs 2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web APIs FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 1) 4. Chapter 4: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 2) 5. Chapter 5: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals) 6. Chapter 6: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Entity Relationships) 7. Chapter 7: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 3: Tips) 8. Chapter 8: Security and Identity in ASP.NET Core 9. Chapter 9: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 1 – Unit Testing) 10. Chapter 10: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Integration Testing) 11. Chapter 11: Getting Started with gRPC 12. Chapter 12: Getting Started with GraphQL 13. Chapter 13: Getting Started with SignalR 14. Chapter 14: CI/CD for ASP.NET Core Using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions 15. Chapter 15: ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices 16. Chapter 16: Error Handling, Monitoring, and Observability 17. Chapter 17: Cloud-Native Patterns 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding many-to-many relationships

A many-to-many relationship is when an entity can be associated with multiple entities and vice versa. For example, a movie can have many actors, and an actor can act in many movies; a post can have many tags, and a tag can have many posts; a student can enroll in many courses, and a course can have many students, and so on. In this section, we will introduce how to configure a many-to-many relationship in EF Core.

Many-to-many configuration

In a many-to-many relationship, we need to define a collection navigation property on both sides. Here is an example of a many-to-many relationship between a Movie entity and an Actor entity:

public class Movie{
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; } = string.Empty;
    public string? Description { get; set; }
    public int ReleaseYear { get; set; }
    public List...
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