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Configure entity framework for database access

Configure entity framework for database access

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Configure entity framework for database access

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- [Instructor] In this part, we're going to set up the database connection with Entity Framework, and we are going to use Entity Framework to communicate with our SQL database. Now before we get started, it's really important to know that Entity Framework is a Microsoft ORN tool, or object relational mapping tool for .NET, that lets you work with a database using C objects instead of SQL. This way, you can map tables to classes for easier data management. Now I've mentioned in here, the SQL, because that is going to be the database that we're going to work with, but Entity Framework does support different database types. Now to set up Entity Framework, we need to first install some packages. We are going to start with the first one, which is the core Entity Framework package, the Microsoft Entity Framework core that does provide the foundational RM functionality. It allows us to map C# classes or models to database tables, and perform database operations using link queries instead of…

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