Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating reusable queries

In this recipe, we will be working to create reusable queries that are defined outside of the data context and are specific to an object type.

Getting ready

We will be using the NuGet Package Manager to install the Entity Framework Core 1 package, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore. We will also be using a SQL Server database for storing the data, so we will also need Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.

Finally, xunit is the package we will be using for the unit tests and dotnet-text-xunit adds tooling support for Visual Studio. Note that the UnitTests project is a .NET Core App 1.0 (netcoreapp1.0), that Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design is configured as a build dependency and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools is set ...