Introduction to Entity Framework Core

Gugatharsan Sivalingam
9 min readJun 4, 2020

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, open-source, and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology. EF Core can serve as an object-relational mapper (ORM), enabling .NET developers to work with a database using .NET objects, and eliminating the need for most of the data-access code they usually need to write. EF Core supports many database engines. In this article, I will teach you how to connect with SQL Server from ASP.NET MVC using Entity Framework Core.

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Gugatharsan Sivalingam

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