Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

Configuring the model mapping

EF Core uses conventions to map your entities into database objects, but you can also configure the mapping explicitly in two ways:

• Data Annotations: Defines each type and property map to the database by using attributes
• Fluent API: The model is defined by overriding the DbContext OnModelCreating method and using a ModelBuilder class to define the mapping

In this book, we'll mainly use the EF Core conventions, but when there's a need to fine-tune the mapping, it will be done with the Fluent API.

Here are the default EF Core conventions that are used by our model:

• Table names take the plural form of the entity name. For example, Products is the table name for the Product entity.
• Column names are the same as ...