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Adam FreemanPro Entity Framework Core 2 for ASP.NET Core MVChttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3435-8_2

2. Your First Entity Framework Core Application

Adam Freeman1 
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London, UK
 

The best way to get started with Entity Framework Core is to jump right in and use it. In this chapter, I create a simple application using Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Core MVC so you can see how everything fits together. To keep the example simple, I skip over some of the details that are described in later chapters.

Getting Ready

To prepare for the example in this chapter—and the ones in the chapters that follow—you will need to install some development tools. There are zero-cost versions of all of the tools required for ASP.NET Core MVC and Entity ...

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