EF Core DbContext

In the preceding section, we added the EF Core package for SQL Server support; now we need to create a context so our models could interact with our product database. We have the Product and Category models. To do so, refer to this list:

  • Add a new folder and name it Contexts--it is not compulsory to add a new folder
  • In the context folder, add a new C# class and name it ProductContext--we are creating DbContext for ProductDatabase, so to make the similarity here, we are creating ProductContext
  • Make sure the ProductContext class inherits the DbContext class
  • Make the changes and our ProductContext class will look like this:
    using FlixOne.BookStore.ProductService.Models;    using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore; namespace FlixOne.BookStore.ProductService.Contexts ...

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