Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter’s topics with deeper research.

Exercise 3.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. What can the dotnet-ef tool be used for?
2. What type would you use for the property that represents a table, for example, the Products property of a data context?
3. What type would you use for the property that represents a one-to-many relationship, for example, the Products property of a Category entity?
4. What is the EF Core convention for primary keys?
5. Why might you choose the Fluent API in preference to annotation attributes?
6. Why might you implement the IMaterializationInterceptor interface in an entity type?

Exercise 3.2 – Practice benchmarking ADO.NET against EF Core

In the Chapter03 solution, create a console app named Ch03Ex02_ADONETvsEFCore that uses Benchmark...