What this book covers

Chapter 1, Kickstart – Introduction to Entity Framework Core, teaches you about installing/configuring Entity Framework Core in .NET Core applications. It guides us through performing CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations.

Chapter 2, The Other Way Around – Database First Approach, explains about reverse engineering and existing database using EF Core. It guides us through performing migrations and also helps us in retaining model changes that won't be lost during migrations.

Chapter 3, Relationships – Terminology and Conventions, provides knowledge about relationship terms related to entities, keys, and properties. We will also see different conventions available with respect to relationships.

Chapter 4, Building Relationships – Understanding Mapping, helps you explore multiple relationship techniques and explains how to leverage them in your application design. We will also explore how to create relationships using Fluent API.

Chapter 5, Know the Validation – Explore Inbuilt Validations, teaches you about how validation works in the framework, explores built-in validations, shows how they should be configured, covers the patterns each validation expects from the user, and shows how the validation error is rendered by the MVC engine.

Chapter 6, Save Yourself – Hack Proof Your Entities, helps us with adding validations, explains why we need validations on both the client side and server side, and shows how to achieve it. It also introduces custom validation, and how to create client-side logic for validation and remote validation.

Chapter 7, Going Raw – Leveraging SQL Queries in LINQ, teaches you about executing Raw SQL Queries while also teaching you how to execute parameterized queries, compose with LINQ, and, finally, execute without a DbSet or POCO object.

Chapter 8, Query Is All We Need – Query Object Pattern, helps you understand the Query Object pattern, and extend EF to leverage query objects.

Chapter 9, Fail Safe Mechanism – Transactions, helps you understand the existing behavior of transactions, how to create regular/cross-context transactions, and how to use external DBTransactions.

Chapter 10, Make It Real – Handling Concurrencies, elaborates on how concurrency is wired in EF and how to handle it. It explains concurrency tokens in detail and shows how to create a fail-safe mechanism using it.

Chapter 11, Performance – It's All About Execution Time, teaches you how to improve EF's performance by properly utilizing the framework, reducing abuses, and much more.

Chapter 12, Isolation – Building a Multi-Tenant Database, explores row-level security and multi-tenant databases in detail.