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Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core
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Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

by Andrea Tosato, Marco Minerva, Emanuele Bartolesi
October 2022
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
4h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Integration with the Data Access Layer

In this chapter, we will learn about some basic ways to add a data access layer to the minimal APIs in .NET 6.0. We will see how we can use some topics covered previously in the book to access data with Entity Framework (EF) and then with Dapper. These are two ways to access a database.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Using Entity Framework
  • Using Dapper

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to use EF from scratch in a minimal API project, and use Dapper for the same goal. You will also be able to tell when one approach is better than the other in a project.

Technical requirements

To follow along with this chapter, you will need to create an ASP.NET Core 6.0 Web API ...

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