Entity Framework Core in Action

9 Going deeper into the DbContext

This chapter covers

• How EF Core detects changes to an entity
• Using change tracking to build an audit trail
• Using raw SQL commands from EF Core
• Inspecting EF Core’s database model
• Using EF Core’s database connection resiliency

So far in this book, you’ve seen a wide range of EF Core commands available to you. This chapter digs deeper into the properties and methods available in the application’s DbContext. In some cases, I provide a more detailed explanation of commands in chapter 3, such as the Add, Update, and Delete methods. I also introduce methods that haven’t been covered, such as Attach and TrackGraph, that give you options on how to change the database data.

The EF Core’s DbContext class has a ...