Livestream – Chris Klug: Stop using Entity Framework as a DTO provider!
Update: Recording is now available on JetBrains TV at YouTube.
Join us for another JetBrains Livestream on March 21st, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC when guest Chris Klug gives his spicy take of “Stop using Entity Framework as a DTO provider!”.
Chris Klug has some opinions about Entity Framework and wants you to know about them…
Entity Framework is a great tool to retrieve your data from databases. However, it can also be a bit complicated and requires that you read a bit more than just the “Getting Started with EF” page. Unfortunately, this seems to be what most developers do.
I think that is why I keep seeing people using it to replicate the database structure in their code with DTOs. This is not the way it was intended to be used – it was intended to persist and retrieve data for your C# objects, not just DTOs.
And if one more person tells me, “We used a micro-ORM for this project since it does the same thing as EF but without the complexity”, I’ll blow a gasket!
Join me for a look into how we can do better. In this talk, I will show you how we can use proper OOP and still use EF to persist and retrieve our objects.
Agenda
- 00:00:00 – Introduction
- 00:02:37 – Presentation Start
- 00:11:38 – The Example Domain
- 00:21:08 – But Why? EF is an ORM
- 00:24:17 – Demo Code
- 01:02:23 – Running the Sample and Fixes
- 01:08:00 – Wrap up
- 01:15:41 – Q&A
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