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

by Irina Dominte
August 2023
Beginner
423 pages
8h 59m
English
Apress
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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  
(1)
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 ...

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