Setting Up EF Core
Explore how to set up Entity Framework Core by choosing and installing database providers, defining a DbContext-derived class, and configuring connection strings. This lesson helps you understand EF Core setup with SQLite, enabling efficient data management in your C# applications.
Before we dive into the practicalities of managing data using EF Core, let’s briefly talk about choosing between EF Core database providers.
Choosing an EF Core database provider
To manage data in a specific database, we need classes that know how to efficiently talk to that database. EF Core database providers are sets of classes that are optimized for a specific data store. There is even a provider for storing the data in the current process's memory, which can be useful for high-performance unit testing since it avoids hitting an ...