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Entity Framework Core 3.1: Getting Started
This course helps those with experience in earlier versions of EF and EF Core, and developers completely new to Entity Framework. Learn how to build data models with EF Core 3.1, use EF Core to let your software interact with data in your databases and incorporate EF Core in your automated tests.
What you'll learn
Learn from the world's top expert to get up to speed with EF Core 3.1. In this course, Entity Framework Core: Getting Started, you will gain an understanding of how to build data models with EF Core 3.1, use EF Core to let your software interact with data in your databases and incorporate EF Core in your automated tests. First, you will learn how to build and interact with data models. Then, you will discover how to set up logging to gain insight into how EF Core is interacting with your database. Finally, you will explore how to get EF Core to use your own database logic and use EF Core in tests and ASP.NET Core apps. By the end of this course, you will be able to use and benefit from EF Core 3.1.
Table of contents
- Version Check | 15s
- Introduction and Course Overview | 2m 55s
- Module Overview | 47s
- What is Entity Framework Core? | 3m 28s
- Getting the Correct Versions of .NET, SQL Server & Visual Studio for This Course | 1m 40s
- Setting up the Solution | 4m 53s
- Adding EF Core with the NuGet Package Manager | 3m 21s
- Creating the Data Model with EF Core | 3m 9s
- Specifying the Data Provider and Connection String | 3m 24s
- A Sneak Peek at Writing and Reading Data | 4m 7s
- Review and Resources | 57s
About the author
Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie is the author of the highly acclaimed "Programming Entity Framework (with a second edition coming soon) and authors the MSDN Magazine Data Points column.
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