Loading Related Data

Entity Framework Core allows you to use the navigation properties in your model to load related entities. There are three common O/RM patterns used to load related data.

• Eager loading means that the related data is loaded from the database as part of the initial query.
• Explicit loading means that the related data is explicitly loaded from the database at a later time.
• Lazy loading means that the related data is transparently loaded from the database when the navigation property is accessed.

[!TIP] You can view the samples under this section on GitHub.