You're reading from Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8

Product type Book

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804610954

Pages 804 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Xiaodi Yan

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Web APIs

2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web APIs

3. Chapter 3: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 1)

4. Chapter 4: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 2)

5. Chapter 5: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals)

6. Chapter 6: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Entity Relationships)

7. Chapter 7: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 3: Tips)

8. Chapter 8: Security and Identity in ASP.NET Core

9. Chapter 9: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 1 – Unit Testing)

10. Chapter 10: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Integration Testing)

11. Chapter 11: Getting Started with gRPC

12. Chapter 12: Getting Started with GraphQL

13. Chapter 13: Getting Started with SignalR

14. Chapter 14: CI/CD for ASP.NET Core Using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

15. Chapter 15: ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices

16. Chapter 16: Error Handling, Monitoring, and Observability

17. Chapter 17: Cloud-Native Patterns

18. Index

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Summary

In this comprehensive chapter, we delved into modeling relationships between entities in EF Core. We explored various common relationship types, including one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships. We learned how to configure these relationships using essential methods such as HasOne()/WithMany(), HasMany()/WithOne(), and HasMany()/WithMany(). To broaden our understanding, we also explored configuring owned entity types using the OwnsOne()/WithOwner() and OwnsMany/WithOwner() methods.

To effectively operate on entities with relationships, we explained how to implement CRUD operations for each type of relationship. Particularly, we explained cascading delete operations, ensuring data integrity and efficient management of related entities.

The concepts learned in this chapter will help you model relationships between entities in your ASP.NET Core applications. In the next chapter, we will learn about some advanced topics of EF Core, such as concurrency control...