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Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0

You're reading from   Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0 Dive into entities, relationships, querying, performance optimization, and more, to learn efficient data-driven development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294133
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prabhakaran Anbazhagan Prabhakaran Anbazhagan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kickstart - Introduction to Entity Framework Core 2. The Other Way Around – Database First Approach FREE CHAPTER 3. Relationships – Terminology and Conventions 4. Building Relationships – Understanding Mapping 5. Know the Validation – Explore Inbuilt Validations 6. Save Yourself – Hack Proof Your Entities 7. Going Raw – Leveraging SQL Queries in LINQ 8. Query Is All We Need – Query Object Pattern 9. Fail Safe Mechanism – Transactions 10. Make It Real – Handling Concurrencies 11. Performance – It's All About Execution Time 12. Isolation – Building a Multi-Tenant Database

Enhancing queries with expression trees

An expression tree is a mechanism that allows developers to create expressions that are necessary for the filters in the queries. In .NET, we have Func<T, TResult> to wrap a Where predicate and use it in multiple occurrences. We could use the same mechanism to create expression trees and leverage them in query objects.

The generic IQueryExpression interface has a provision to create an expression through Func, the following code creates contract for AsExpression().

    public interface IQueryExpression<T>
{
Expression<Func<T, bool>> AsExpression();
}

The concrete expression class implements IQueryExpression with concrete methods and their interface counterpart and wraps the Where predicate inside the AsExpression method, which returns a Func object. The following code provides a wildcard...

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