Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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A. Troelsen, P. JapiksePro C# 10 with .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7869-7_21

21. Introducing Entity Framework Core

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phil Japikse²

(1)

Chambersburg, PA, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

The previous chapter examined the fundamentals of ADO.NET. As you saw, ADO.NET enables .NET programmers to work with relational data. While ADO.NET is an effective tool for working with data, it isn’t necessarily an efficient tool. The efficiency that I am referring to is developer efficiency. To help with the developer efficiency, Microsoft introduced a new framework for data access called the Entity Framework (or simply, EF) in .NET 3.5 Service ...