Web API Development for the Absolute Beginner: A Step-by-step Approach to Learning the Fundamentals of Web API Development with .NET 7

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I. DominteWeb API Development for the Absolute Beginnerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9348-5_6

6. Introducing an ORM

Irina Dominte¹  

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Iasi, Romania

 

In this chapter, we will learn what an ORM is and how we can easily connect an API to a data store by using such a tool. We will focus on working with Entity Framework Core and SQL Server. Even though there are many relational databases available, in this book we will use SQL Server Express’ LocalDB feature. This is installed along with Visual Studio and provides a lightweight SQL Server instance that is ready to use on your machine.

Before we dig into any code we need to understand a few concepts and how ...