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Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals)

In Chapter 2, we introduced a simple ASP.NET Core application to manage blog posts, which uses a static field to store the data in memory. In many real-world applications, the data is persisted in databases – such as SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and so on – so we will need to access the database to implement the CRUD operations.

In this chapter, we will learn about data access in ASP.NET Core. There are many ways to access the database in ASP.NET Core, such as through ADO.NET, Entity Framework Core, and Dapper, among others. In this chapter, we will focus on Entity Framework Core, which is the most popular object-relational mapping (ORM) framework in .NET Core. ...