Creating the Database Context definition

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Creating the Database Context definition

asp.net-core asp.net-core-mvc c# dbcontext entity-framework-core

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This is how to declare a DB Context according to book "Pro ASP.NET Core MVC 2" , Adam Freeman. What does this parameter mean:

DbContextOptions<ApplicationDbContext> options : base(options) { }

Trying to understand options in declaring DBContext.

using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

namespace SportsStore.Models 
{
     public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
     {
         public ApplicationDbContext(DbContextOptions<ApplicationDbContext> options): 
             base(options) 
         {
         }

         public DbSet<Product> Products { get; set; }
     }
}

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ChW · Accepted Answer · 3/27/2018 7:39:33 AM

You have a ApplicationDbContext that inherits from DbContext like every database context have to. It represents your database object in code at which you would do CRUD-operations. Because you are inheriting you have the possibility to call the base constructor that does - in that case - the initialization. It could take none or one parameter of type DbContextOptions<T> or DbContextOptions in concrete DbContextOptions<ApplicationDbContext> - that's the base(options) call. You could find a more detailed and maybe better explanation in this MS doc article base(C# Reference) The base class' implementation could you find on GitHub - EntityFramework Core repository. (The link is referencing to the base-constructor you are calling in your code.)

The DbContextOptions<ApplicationDbContext> objects includes the configuration you may have set up before you inject it into your ApplicationDbContext.

More detailed from MS docs article - Configuring DbContextOptions:

DbContext must have an instance of DbContextOptions in order to perform any work. The DbContextOptions instance carries configuration information such as:

The database provider to use, typically selected by invoking a method such as UseSqlServer or UseSqlite

Any necessary connection string or identifier of the database instance, typically passed as an argument to the provider selection method mentioned above

Any provider-level optional behavior selectors, typically also chained inside the call to the provider selection method

Any general EF Core behavior selectors, typically chained after or before the provider selector method

In general DbContextOptions is a container that includes the whole database context configuration. You could define e.g. if it is a SQL or in-memory database and the change tracking behavior too. Link in question's comment already mentioned and in my answer too, the MS doc article will provide the needed information and example.

Creating the Database Context definition

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