Jon P. Smith - Entity Framework Core in Action

SECOND EDITION

JON P SMITH

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An example of an Entity Framework Core database query

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This book helped highlight some issues my team was having with EF Core and has become an invaluable resource that takes pride of place on our bookshelves.

Evan Wallace, senior software Developer at Berkley Insurance Australia

The most complete go-to book for anything you need to know about EF Core! The #1 must-have EF Core reference for your library!

Mauro Quercioli, senior independent software architect/developer, Siena I.T. Consulting Corporation

Knowing that EF Core in Action is right there on my desk, I am approaching my latest assignmentto build out a new WebAPI application using Entity Framework Corewith complete confidence. The book addresses everything we needed to know about EF Core and more!

Phil Taffet, senior .NET developer, California Earthquake Authority

Finally a book to learn all about EF Core. Its fun and engaging reading this. Be carefulwhether youre a beginner or professional, youll learn something.

Raushan Kumar Jha, SE-2, Microsoft India (R&D)

This is a solid book dealing well with the topic in hand but also handling the wider concerns around using Entity Framework in real-world applications.

Sebastian Rogers, technical director, Simple Innovations

Have you ever worked on an application that doesnt use data and requires some means of interacting with a data store? In my decades as a software developer, every single application I have worked on or have helped others with has depended on reading and writing to some type of data store. When I became a solo entrepreneur in the 1990s, I came up with the name The Data Farm for my company. I am definitely a data nerd.

Over the past few decades, Microsoft has gone through many iterations of data access frameworks. If youve been working in this arena for a while, you might remember DAO and RDO, ADO, and ADO.NET. In 2006, Microsoft shared the first iterations of the as-yet-unnamed Entity Framework (EF), based on work done at Microsoft Research in a private meeting at TechEd. I was one of the few people invited to that meeting. It was my first time seeing an Object Relational Mapper (ORM), a library that focuses on relieving developers from the redundant drudgery of building connections and commands, writing SQL, transforming query results into objects, and transforming object changes into SQL to persist back to the database.

Many of us worried that this framework was yet another data access framework that Microsoft would give up on in short order, forcing us to learn yet another one down the road. But history has proved us wrong. Fifteen years later, Microsoft is still investing in Entity Framework, which has evolved into the cross-platform and open source Entity Framework Core and continues to be Microsofts go-to data access library for .NET developers.