.NET 6 using Onion Architecture- Part 3- Data access with Entity Framework and SQL Server – PwP Episode 7

Challenges

  • Managing data access in complex, scalable applications.
  • Balancing flexibility with performance in database operations.
  • Integrating Entity Framework with Onion Architecture principles.

Solutions

  • Leveraging Entity Framework to streamline database interactions.
  • Structuring data access layers to maintain separation of concerns.
  • Utilizing SQL Server for robust and scalable storage solutions.

Benefits

  • Simplified data access with Entity Framework integration.
  • Improved maintainability through clearly defined data layers.
  • Enhanced performance and scalability with optimized database design.

In part three, we add data access for the first time. We use an integration test to test-drive the implementation of entity framework and our database migration tool.

By the end, we are creating our database schema and writing and reading records with our database. We also are running our integration test suite on our build server both in GitHub Actions as well as Azure Pipelines. Both support a SQL database server locally on the build server.

Code Sample: https://github.com/jeffreypalermo/onion-architecture-dotnet-6/tree/issue-4-data-access-with-entity-framework-and-sql-server