In the previous post we looked at how many-to-many relationships can be mapped using a join entity. In this post we’ll make the navigation properties to the join entity private so that […]
Many-to-many relationships in EF Core 2.0 – Part 1: The basics
As of EF Core 2.0, many-to-many relationships without an explicitly mapped join table are not supported. However, all is not lost. In this series of posts I will show: Mapping many-to-many relationships […]
Add, Attach, Update, and Remove methods in EF Core 1.1
EF Core provides a variety of ways to start tracking entities or change their state. This post gives a brief overview of the different approaches.
EF Core 1.1: Looking at your model in the debugger
As developers on the EF team it is often useful to see what is in the metadata model. To facilitate this, the model and all other metadata elements are able to generate […]
Notification entities in EF Core 1.1
By default, EF Core uses snapshot change tracking. However, if entity types implement INotifyPropertyChanged and optionally INotifyPropertyChanging, then EF can use these notifications to avoid the overhead of creating snapshots and detecting […]
So you want to write an EF Core provider…
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 […]
Implementing provider extension methods in EF Core 1.1
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 […]
