Smith J. Entity Framework Core in Action 2ed 2021

Textbook in PDF format

Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition is an in-depth guide to reading and writing databases with EF Core. Revised from the bestselling original edition, it’s filled with over 100 diagrams, code snippets, and examples—including building and scaling your own bookselling web application. Learn from author Jon Smith’s extensive experience working with EF Core in production, as you discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing. All of the book’s code is available on GitHub.
about the technology:
Entity Framework radically simplifies data access in .NET applications. This easy-to-use object-relational mapper (ORM) lets you write database code in pure C#. It automatically maps classes to database tables and enables queries with standard LINQ commands. It even generates SQL, so you don’t have to!
Introduction to Entity Framework Core
Querying the database
Changing the database content
Using EF Core in business logic
Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications
Tips and techniques for reading and writing with EF Core
Configuring nonrelational properties
Configuring relationships
Handling database migrations
Configuring advanced features and handling concurrency conflicts
Going deeper into the DbContext
Using entity events to solve business problems
Domain-Driven Design and other architectural approaches
EF Core performance tuning
Master class on performance-tuning database queries
Cosmos DB, CQRS, and other database types
Unit testing EF Core applications