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Gabriel Baptista
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Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese
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Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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Configuring Entity Framework Core

Since, as detailed in Chapter 7, Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions, database handling is confined within a dedicated application layer, it is good practice to define your Entity Framework Core (DbContext) in a separate library. Accordingly, we need to define a .NET class library project.

We have two different kinds of library projects: .NET Standard and .NET Core. Please refer to Chapter 5, Implementing Code Reusability in C# 12, for a discussion on the various kinds of libraries.

While .NET libraries are tied to a specific .NET Core version, .NET Standard 2.0 libraries have a wide range of applications since they work with any .NET version greater than 2.0 and also with the old .NET Framework 4.7 and above.

Since our library is not a general-purpose library (it’s just a component of a specific .NET 8 application), instead of choosing a .NET Standard library project, we can simply choose a .NET 8 library...

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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese

Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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