Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

Entity Framework Core

Entity Framework Core combines the years of accumulated ORM structure with SQLite support, making it a strong candidate for local storage implementations. Similar to the classic .NET version of Entity Framework, data contexts can be created and queried using the UseSqlite extension with a file path for DbContextOptionsBuilder:

public class AuctionsDatabaseContext : DbContext {    public DbSet<Auction> Auctions { get; set; }    protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)    {        var dbPath = string.Empty;        switch (Device.RuntimePlatform)        {            case Device.Android:                dbPath = Path.Combine(                            Environment.GetFolderPath(                                Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments),                            "Auctions.db");            // removed for brevity        }        optionsBuilder.UserSqlite($"Filename={dbPath}); ...