Overview

An entity type is a type included in the EF Core model. EF Core creates tables from entity types. In this lesson, we’ll review how to configure entity types using data annotations or the fluent API.

Note: The commands in this lesson generate code and files. Through the terminal, we can navigate to these files by using relevant Linux commands such as ls to view a list of files and directories, cd to change directories, and cat to view file contents. A SPA widget showing the updated project with the generated files is also available. Also, note that EF Core uses a timestamp within the generated file names. We represent these names with xxx.

Default conventions

We’ll demonstrate the default conventions with the C# console app project below:

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