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Mark J. Price
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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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Querying EF Core models

Now that we have a model that maps to the Northwind database and two of its tables, we can write some simple LINQ queries to fetch data. You will learn much more about writing LINQ queries in Chapter 11, Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ.For now, just write the code and view the results:

  1. In the WorkingWithEFCore project, add a new class file named Program.Helpers.cs.
  2. In Program.Helpers.cs, add a partial Program class with a SectionTitle method, as shown in the following code:
partial class Program
{
  private static void ConfigureConsole(string culture = "en-US",
    bool useComputerCulture = false)
  {
    // To enable Unicode characters like Euro symbol in the console.
    OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
    if (!useComputerCulture)
    {
      CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(culture);
    }
    WriteLine($"CurrentCulture: {CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DisplayName}");
  }
  private static void WriteLineInColor...
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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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