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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788294133

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET Core

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Prabhakaran Anbazhagan

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

Relationships

We could have conventional relationships such as one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many in our entity relationships with ease in EF. Let's explore them in detail in this section. To make it interesting, let's design the database of the blogging system during the course of understanding relationships:

We have seen the proposed design of the blogging system; now let's learn about the relationships and how they could be built using the same design.

The one-to-one relationship

We need a new entity to explain the one-to-one relationship, as the existing entities don't have the provision to explain the same. So let's pick the Address entity from...

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Authors (1)

Prabhakaran Anbazhagan

Prabhakaran Anbazhagan is a Microsoft Solution Architect living in Chennai, India. His passion for programming started while creating a website for his school, and that's where the never-ending journey started. He became the secretary of a technology group in college, creating websites yet again, automating symposiums, and much more. He started his career at a prestigious product-based company; his knowledge was respected and recognized by his seniors, who let him develop tools and automation to sharpen his talents. Lucky guy! People hardly ever get to nurture their talent, but he got a handful of opportunities to sharpen his skills and become a Solution Architect, becoming a jack of all trades but still an expert in .NET. Prabhakaran has more than 12 years of IT experience in architecting, designing, and developing mission-critical desktop, web, and mobile applications. He has experience in full-stack development spanning ASP.NET MVC, Web API, C#, Mobility expert in Swift, Objective-C, Blackberry Cascades, hybrid apps, SharePoint, JavaScript, jQuery, and MEAN.JS.

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