Discover Entity Framework Core for efficient data access and relational mapping. Gain insights into workflows, model configuration, querying, change tracking, logging, and testing to boost productivity and code maintainability.

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This course introduces Entity Framework Core for data access and object-relational mapping. Entity Framework Core provides benefits such as the ability to work with databases using .NET objects without the concern for underlying database tables. This leads to less code for data access and improved performance. 

You’ll begin with the workflows of Entity Framework Core—reverse engineering and migrations. Next, you’ll learn model configuration and relationships. Then, you’ll cover various methods for querying and saving data. You’ll also learn about change tracking and its relationship with queries. Finally, you’ll learn about logging and testing.

Entity Framework Core simplifies app development. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to improve code maintainability and concentrate on business logic by generating SQL, materializing results, and performing other tasks. You’ll have a good understanding of Entity Framework Core, which will improve your productivity and efficiency on your development journey.

Using Entity Framework Core for Data Access & Relational Mapping

# Introduction to LINQ
EF Core uses Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to query data from data stores. As long as the data store has a LINQ provider, `LINQ` can query data from multiple data stores.

**Queries** are expressions that retrieve data from data sources. Traditionally, we express queries in a specialized query language such as SQL or XQuery, and developers must learn the query language for each data source their applications support.

By offering a consistent programming model for working with data across various data sources, `LINQ` simplifies things. We can use the same basic query expression patterns to query and transform data in SQL databases, ADO .NET Datasets, XML documents and streams, and .NET collections.

Learn how to query data using LINQ in EF Core.

Getting Started

Reverse Engineering

Migrations

Configuring a Model

Query Data

Save Data

Logging and Testing

Conclusion

Appendix

Querying Data with LINQ

Introduction to LINQ