ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

1. First, we add EF as an injected service:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) 
{ 
services.AddEntityFramework()}

IntelliSense can help us to find this method, which already exists as an extension method helper.

2. Next, we associate EF with a database. EF doesn't know anything about the data store we will use (any relational database, any nonrelational database, and so on):

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) 
{ 
services.AddEntityFramework() 
.AddSqlServer() }

3. Now we add the DbContext named ApplicationDbContext associated with the connection in the parameter stored in appsettings.json.

In doing this, we configure a database provider when setting up the services for our application: ...