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Demystifying the Code First approach in EF Core

When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...
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Microsoft Ships First v2.1 Previews of .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core

Microsoft has shipped the first preview of .NET Core 2.1 -- its modularized, open source, cross-platform evolution of the .NET Framework and runtime -- along with associated "Core" packages for ...
Visual Studio Magazine

ASP.NET Core: Learning the Ropes, Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of ASP.NET Core: Learning the Ropes. I'll show how to use Entity Framework (EF) Core in the application that was developed in Part 1. I'll go over how to implement the basic CRUD ...
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Dependency injection best practices for ASP.NET Core MVC 5

Learn how to use constructor injection, property injection, method injection, and the service locator pattern in ASP.NET Core MVC 5, along with their caveats. Dependency injection is a first-class ...