Apps and Services with .NET 10 - Third Edition

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Building Entity Models Using EF Core

This chapter is about managing relational data stored in SQL Server by using the higher-level object-to-data store mapping technology named Entity Framework Core (EF Core). You will review how to define entity models, and how to query a model. Next, you will learn how EF Core tracks changes in its data context so that it can later add, update and delete data in the underlying database. Then, you will learn how to store entity models that use inheritance hierarchies using three different mapping strategies.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Managing data with EF Core
• Controlling the tracking of entities
• Mapping inheritance hierarchies with EF Core

Managing data with EF Core

EF Core is an