Introduction to Entity Framework Core 6

Learn Entity Framework Core from scratch

What you'll learn
You are going to be able to develop .NET apps that use Entity Framework Core
Read, update, insert and delete data using Entity Framework Core
Create databases from C# code
Model relationships using conventions, data annotations and the fluent API
Do automatic tests that involves Entity Framework Core
Use the latest features of Entity Framework Core

Requirements
Basic C# level. Know how to work with variables, functions, classes and LINQ
Not much T-SQL knowledge is needed, though it helps to know basic concepts, like databases and tables
Description
In this course you will learn how to use Entity Framework Core 6 to talk to a database from C# code.

- We will learn to create databases from our C# code using the code-first technique.

- We will make a brief comparison with Dapper, to see what is the difference between each of these tools.

- We will see how to read, update, delete, and create data using Entity Framework Core.

- We will learn to work with relationships between our tables: One-to-many relationships, one-to-one relationships, and many-to-many relationships.

- We will use the Fluent API to configure the schema of our database.

- We will see how to use automatic tests in our Entity Framework Core projects.

- We will learn about the new features that Entity Framework Core 6 brings us.

- We will use functions such as Sum, Average and GroupBy, to perform operations on different records of a table.

- We will see how to execute stored procedures using Entity Framework Core.

- We will load the related data of our entities in different ways, using eager loading, explicit loading, select loading and lazy loading.

- We will learn that with deferred execution we can use interesting techniques to make our code more flexible and reusable.

- We will see techniques on how to correctly configure Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET Core, for example, we will see when we should use a pool to recycle the DbContext.

Who this course is for
Beginner or advanced .NET developer who wants to learn Entity Framework Core from scratch
Beginner or advanced .NET developer who wants to stay up to date with Entity Framework Core features