Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Setting up EF with the API

To use EF Core, the following package is required, which can be downloaded and installed from NuGet Package Manager inside Tools:

Additionally, we need another package named Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools. This will help us with creating model classes from the database:

Now, we arrive at the point where we need model classes according to the database tables. The following powershell command can be executed inside the package manager console to create the model class for the Customers table:

Scaffold-DbContext ...