Writing a database provider for EF Core can be daunting. I have written several posts over the last month containing information you need to know when writing a provider. This post pulls all that together to give an overview of the different building blocks with links to previous posts containing the details.
A previous post gave an outline of EF Core metadata. That post showed the extension methods used by providers to add provider-specific functionality to EF. This post describes how to implement those methods. This post is aimed at provider writers or those who may want to contribute to the EF Core source code.
There is very little code in EF Core that is truely “internal”. Instead, code that would traditionally have been internal has been made public but documented as internal. This post looks at what this means for application developers and how you can use this code responsibly.
This post provides a high-level overview of metadata structure and APIs in EF Core 1.1. It covers the core metadata interfaces and shows how they are extended with particular focus on provider extensions.
The previous post contained lots of information about how dependency injection works with database providers. This post adds more to the provider story by explaining how to implement a method like UseSqlServer that allows applications to select the provider to use.
A previous post gave an overview of how dependency injection is used internally by EF Core, and how applications might interact with this. In this post we will look at some of the internal details. This post is aimed at provider writers and people who may want to contribute to the EF source code. Application developers should not need to know any of this.
There has recently been some confusion about what mappings are supported for collection navigation properties in EF Core. This post is an attempt to clear things up by showing:
