Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition

5 Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications

This chapter covers

• 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 chapter, 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 (covered in section 5.4) and async/await (covered in section 5.10). But they’re necessary if you’re going to use EF Core in this type of application.

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