Entity Framework Core in Action

5 Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications

This chapter covers

• Introduction to using EF Core in ASP.NET Core
• Using dependency injection in ASP.NET Core
• Accessing the database in ASP.NET Core MVC actions
• Using EF Core migrations to update a database
• Using async/await to improve scalability

In this last chapter of part 1, you’ll pull everything together by using ASP.NET Core to build a real web application. Using ASP.NET Core brings in issues that are outside EF Core, such as dependency injection, which I describe later. But they’re necessary if you’re going to use EF Core in this type of application.

This chapter assumes you’ve read chapters 2 to 4, and know about querying and updating the database and what business logic is. This ...