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Set up an in-memory database

Set up an in-memory database - ASP.NET Core Tutorial

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Set up an in-memory database

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- [Instructor] All of the data about the hotel's rooms and bookings will be stored in the database. We'll use Entity Framework core to connect our API to a database provider. While we're building the API, we can use the in-memory provider feature of EF core to quickly set up a test database. The beauty of using an in-memory database for development is that we can simply swap it out for a real database once we go to production. The first thing we need to do is add a DbContext. We'll do that at the root of the project. I'll add a new class and I'll call this HotelAPIDbConext. This DbContext needs to inherit from the DbContext base class. And I need to import that namespace from EF Core. There's a couple of lines of code I need to add which are mostly boilerplate code. I need to add a constructor, HotelApiDbContext. That accepts a DbContextOptions, just call this options. And all I need to do is just pass this down to the base method. Now, I'll declare the different Db sets, or tables if…

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