williamdnapier / ef-core-console-app

Sample project with Entity Framework Core in .NET Core Console App

Entity Framework Core in .NET Core Console App

This project uses .NET Core SDK version 2.2.301 with Entity Framework Core to create a simple console application. This console application serves only one purpose -- to demostrate knowledge of Entity Framework Core with basic .NET Core SDK functionality.

The significance in this app is the way in which it was built. Following Microsoft documentation, I used the .NET Core SDK to do the following steps:

1. Create a new project

dotnet new console -o ConsoleApp.SQLite

2. Install Entity Framework Core

dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design

3. Run dotnet restore to install new packages.

4. Create the Product and Store models.

5. Using migrations, I created the SQLite database with the following .NET Core SDK commands:

dotnet ef migrations add InitialCreate
dotnet ef database update

6. Then, when the app is run in the VS Code terminal, you can see the results of adding model records to the database.

ConsoleApp.SQLite>dotnet run
1 records saved to the database

All stores in the database:
...

7. Also, updated the Store model and ran additional migrations in order to try that.