New Pluralsight Course! EF Core 2: Getting Started

I’ve recently published my 19th course on Pluralsight.com: Entity Framework Core 2: Getting Started.

It’s 2hrs 40 minutes long and focuses on the basics.

This is using EF Core 2.0.1 in Visual Studio 2017.

Future plans: I’ve begun working on an intermediate level course to follow up and have others in the pipeline…such as a course to cover features of EF Core 2.1 when it gets released (I will wait until it has RTMd for stability) and other advanced topics. I am also planning to do a cross-platform version using VS Code on macOS because that’s my fave these days.

If you are not a Pluralsight subscriber, send me a note and I can give you a 30-day trial so you can watch the course. Be warned: the trial is akin to a gateway drug to becoming a subscriber.

Here is the table of contents for the course:

Introducing a New, Lighter Weight Version of EF   32m 40s

Introduction and Overview

What Is Entity Framework Core?

Where You Can Build and Run Apps with EF Core

How EF Core Works

The Path From EF6 to EF Core to EF Core

EF Core 2 New Features

Looking Ahead to EF Core 2.1 and Beyond

Review and Resources

Creating a Data Model and Database with EF Core    42m 36s

Introduction and Overview

Setting up the Solution

Adding EF Core with the NuGet Package Manager

Creating the Data Model with EF Core

Specifying the Data Provider and Connection String

Understanding EF Core Migrations

Adding Your First Migration

Inspecting Your First Migration

Using Migrations to Script or Directly Create the Database

Recreating the Model in .NET Core

Adding Many-to-many and One-to-one Relationships

Reverse Engineering an Existing Database

Review and Resources

Interacting with Your EF Core Data Model 34m 11s

Introduction and Overview

Getting EF Core to Output SQL Logs

Inserting Simple Objects

Batching Commands When Saving

Querying Simple Objects

Filtering Data in Queries

Updating Simple Objects

Disconnected Updates

Deleting Objects with EF Core

Review and Resources

Querying and Saving Related Data   20m 49s

Introduction and Overview

Inserting Related Data

Eager Loading Related Data

Projecting Related Data in Queries

Using Related Data to Filter Objects

Modifying Related Data

Review and Resources

Using EF Core in Your Applications    30m 52s

Introduction and Overview

EF Core on the Desktop or Device

The Desktop Application: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Creating the WPF Application

Walking Through the WPF Data Access

EF Core in ASP.NET Core MVC

Adding Related Data into the MVC App

Coding the MVC App’s Relationships

Review and Resources