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Entity Framework Core

EF Core 9 essentials: DbContext, migrations, relationships, loading strategies, LINQ queries, raw SQL, transactions, concurrency, global query filters, value converters, owned entities, and performance patterns.

Entity Framework Core

What is Entity Framework Core?

DbContext and DbSet

Code-First vs Database-First

Data Annotations vs Fluent API

EF Core migrations workflow

Async EF Core operations

One-to-many relationships

Many-to-many with a join entity

Eager, lazy, and explicit loading

N+1 problem and how to avoid it

LINQ queries with EF Core

Raw SQL with EF Core

Transactions in EF Core

Optimistic concurrency with RowVersion

Global query filters and soft delete

Owned entities

Split queries

Compiled queries

Value converters

EF Core interceptors

Connection resiliency and retry policies

EF Core vs Dapper