Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth Edition

17 Working with data

This chapter covers

• Caching data values or complete responses using ASP.NET Core
• Working with Entity Framework Core to access data in a relational database

All the examples in the earlier chapters in this part of the book have generated fresh responses for each request, which is easy to do when dealing with simple strings or small fragments of HTML. Most real projects deal with data that is expensive to produce and needs to be used as efficiently as possible. In this chapter, I describe the features that ASP.NET Core provides for caching data and caching entire responses. I also show you how to create and configure the services required to access data in a database using Entity Framework Core. Table 17.1 puts the ASP.NET ...