Model

Lists

New in EF8

Basic

C# features

Read-only fields

Specify schema

public class Blog
{
    // private, but not readonly
    // generated by EF
    // not in constructor
    private int _id;

    public Blog(string name)
    {
        Name = name;
    }

    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class AppContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; }

    // Ensures connection is picked up from AddDbContext
    public AppContext(DbContextOptions<AppContext> options)
        : base(options)
    { }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.Entity<Blog>(
            b =>
            {
                b.HasKey("_id");
            });
    }
}


DbContext

Instead of using simple POCO classes, Entity Framework can work with C# features like constructors and private properties