Pro C# 9 with .NET 5: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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22. Introducing Entity Framework Core

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phillip Japikse²

(1)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

The previous chapter examined the fundamentals of ADO.NET. ADO.NET has enabled .NET programmers to work with relational data (in a relatively straightforward manner) since the initial release of the .NET platform. Building on ADO.NET, Microsoft introduced a new component of the ADO.NET API called the Entity Framework (or simply, EF) in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.

The overarching goal of EF is to allow you to interact with data from relational databases ...