Practical Entity Framework: Database Access for Enterprise Applications

© Brian L. Gorman 2020

B. L. GormanPractical Entity Frameworkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6044-9_6

6. Data Access (Create, Read, Update, Delete)

Brian L. Gorman¹ 

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Jesup, IA, USA

 

In this chapter, we are going to learn about the basic tenets of data access using Entity Framework. By the end of the chapter, we’ll have a good understanding of how to interact successfully with the data in our database.

CRUD

The common actions that most applications need are lovingly referred to as CRUD, which stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. Working with EF to perform CRUD operations is generally easy and efficient, but also requires at least a basic understanding of the Language Integrated Query (LINQ) syntax.

LINQ

You may already have some understanding ...