efcore-patterns

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides essential Entity Framework Core patterns, solving the challenge of efficient and robust data access in .NET applications. It guides you in configuring DbContext, managing migrations, optimizing queries, and handling concurrency, ensuring your database interactions are performant and reliable.

Core Features & Use Cases

• DbContext Configuration: Demonstrates how to configure DbContext for various database providers, including connection strings and logging.
• Migrations Management: Guides on creating, applying, and managing database migrations for schema evolution.
• Query Optimization: Covers techniques for eager loading, projections, and AsNoTracking to prevent N+1 issues and improve query performance.
• Concurrency Handling: Patterns for managing optimistic concurrency conflicts to ensure data integrity in multi-user environments.
• Use Case: A backend developer needs to add a new entity to an existing .NET application. Using this skill, they define the entity, update the DbContext, create a new migration, and apply it to the database, ensuring schema changes are managed correctly.

Quick Start

Configure an EF Core DbContext to use an in-memory database for testing purposes, including logging of SQL queries.