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ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals

You're reading from   ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals Build cross-platform apps and dynamic web services with this server-side web application framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789538915
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Onur Gumus Onur Gumus
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Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi
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Using Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC Applications

There is not much difference between using Entity Framework in a console application and the ASP.NET MVC application. Now, we are going to build a simple application with a single screen, as shown in the following screenshot.

In this screen, we will have a form where the user will enter the information about the employee; once the user submits the form, the information will be saved to the database as shown in the following screenshot:

We can create a simple model for the employee. We need to build a ViewModel for this view, as we need to get the employee information from the user and we also need to show a list of employees on the same screen.

The following are the step-by-step instructions to create the application for the previously mentioned objective:

  1. Create an ASP.NET Core project in Visual Studio by selecting an empty...
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