Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition

Mixing SQL with LINQ queries

Another great new feature in Entity Framework Core is the ability to intertwine LINQ and SQL. This means that we can have SQL that returns results that can be turned into entities, and after this SQL is run, we are back to strong typing and can add additional LINQ clauses.

Getting ready

We will be using the NuGet Package Manager to install the Entity Framework Core 1 package, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore. We will also be using a SQL Server database for storing the data, so we will also need Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.

Finally, xunit is the package we will be using for the unit tests and dotnet-text-xunit adds tooling support for Visual Studio. Note that the UnitTests project is a .NET Core App 1.0 (netcoreapp1.0), ...