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Entity Framework Core in .NET

8h 32m

From Zero to Hero

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Course overview(0/3)

WelcomeFree Preview34s What will you learn in this course?Free Preview1m 13s Who is the course for?Free Preview1m 25s

Introduction to Entity Framework Core(0/6)

What is an ORM?3m 23s Where are ORMs useful?2m 29s What is EF Core?5m 16s Introducing: the database context2m 5s How does a DbContext work?2m 25s Section recap36s

Our first EF Core Application(0/8)

The application we will build the data access for6m 32s Creating our first EFCore Model4m 7s Getting the Model to work in our application10m 59s Implementing data manipulation operations17m 43s Implementing query behavior8m 15s Seeing what goes on in the Database4m 8s Projecting data to optimize queries4m 4s Section recap54s

Fine-tuning the model(0/10)

Taking a look at the DB schema2m 34s Introducing DataAnnotations for our Model4m 49s Achieving similar results with FluentAPI9m 42s One-to-many relationships between entities14m 22s Converting between different data types12m 8s Using owned and complex types to group data10m 3s Generating values in the model9m 0s Hiding some database fields from our model4m 9s Applying global query filters3m 28s Section recap1m 8s

Transforming the DB schema with migrations(0/8)

Why do we need migrations?2m 50s The 2 migration philosophies6m 0s Adding our first migration8m 47s Adding migrations after changing the model7m 15s Executing Migrations from the CLI5m 23s Dealing with an out-of-sync model6m 11s The proper way to execute migrations6m 38s Section recap41s

Testing with EF Core(0/7)

What are the challenges in tests with ORMs?4m 59s Using Test databases5m 17s Using a database in memory13m 29s Faking DbSets in unit tests10m 9s The repository pattern8m 49s Integration testing with EF Core4m 26s Section recap3m 32s

Using EF Core in a bigger solution(0/10)

Introduction53s Dependency Injection8m 23s Configuring Logging10m 6s DbContext Lifecycle7m 46s More on repositories17m 6s Different multi-tenant approaches4m 0s Multi-tenant with discriminators9m 35s Multi-tenant with separate databases4m 59s My take on architecture4m 47s Section recap52s

Advanced modelling techniques(0/10)

More DbContext features?1m 27s Using inheritance in your model27m 26s Using Alternate keys5m 37s One-to-one relationships5m 39s Many-to-many relationships9m 30s Using compound keys3m 14s Using raw SQL queries for your entities7m 36s Using keyless entities to query your database5m 31s Using the ChangeTracker for fun & profit12m 56s Section recap1m 20s

Performance & Concurrency(0/8)

The typical types of performance issues4m 19s Slow Queries & DB indices7m 58s Using compiled queries to improve runtime performance6m 59s Using batching to execute bulk queries8m 38s Loading related data - strategies15m 40s Untracked query results3m 23s Solving Concurrency Issues10m 58s Section recap1m 7s

Starting from an existing database(0/6)

When the DB already exists26s Using the DB to generate a model9m 43s How can we further evolve the model?5m 57s Regenerating every time: a demo4m 54s Keeping in sync manually: a demo4m 58s Section recap7s

Using other database engines(0/5)

EF Core isn't just for SQL server59s Using another RDBMS's with EFCore10m 18s What is CosmosDB?6m 36s Switching our system to CosmosDB15m 30s Section recap1m 9s

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