Working with SQL views in Entity Framework Core

Question

For example, I have such model:

public class Blog
{
    public int BlogId { get; set; }
    public string Url { get; set; }

    public BlogImage BlogImage {         


        

Answer 1

Views are not currently supported by Entity Framework Core. See https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework/issues/827.

That said, you can trick EF into using a view by mapping your entity to the view as if it were a table. This approach comes with limitations. e.g. you can't use migrations, you need to manually specific a key for EF to use, and some queries may not work correctly. To get around this last part, you can write SQL queries by hand

context.Images.FromSql("SELECT * FROM dbo.ImageView")