Defining EF Core Models
Explore different methods to define EF Core models such as conventions, annotation attributes, and Fluent API. Understand how to map entity classes to database tables, configure properties, and manage data seeding with Fluent API, helping you build effective data-driven applications.
EF Core uses a combination of conventions, annotation attributes, and Fluent API statements to build an entity model at runtime so that any actions performed on the classes can be automatically translated into actions performed on the actual database. An entity class represents the structure of a table, and an instance of the class represents a row in that table.
Ways to define a model
First, we will review the three ways to define a model, with code examples, and then we will create some classes that ...