ASP.NET Core 1.0 (formerly ASP.NET 5) provides a revamped Web development framework geared towards the requirements of modern Web applications. The new framework, currently in RC1, requires you to learn many new concepts not found in ASP.NET MVC 5. To that end, this article enumerates a few important features that ASP.NET MVC 5 developers should know as they prepare to learn this new framework. 

    public class Person
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [ForeignKey("BornInCityId")]
        public virtual City BornInCity { get; set; }
        public int BornInCityId { get; set; }
    }

    public class City
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<Person> People { get; set; }
    }

    public class MyContext : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<City> Cities { get; set; }
        public DbSet<Person> People { get; set; }
    }

    public class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<MyContext>
    {
        public Configuration()
        {
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
            AutomaticMigrationDataLossAllowed = true;
        }

        protected override void Seed(MyContext context)
        {
            var city1 = new City { Name = "city-1" };
            var city2 = new City { Name = "city-2" };
            context.Cities.Add(city1);
            context.Cities.Add(city2);

            var person1 = new Person { Name = "user-1", BornInCity = city1 };
            var person2 = new Person { Name = "user-2", BornInCity = city1 };
            context.People.Add(person1);
            context.People.Add(person2);

            base.Seed(context);
        }
    }

    public static class Test
    {
        public static void RunTests()
        {
            Database.SetInitializer(new MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion<MyContext, Configuration>());

            using (var context = new MyContext())
            {
                var peopleAndCitiesList = from person in context.People
                           join city in context.Cities
                           on person.BornInCityId equals city.Id
                           select new
                           {
                              PersonName = person.Name,
                              CityName = city.Name
                           };

                foreach (var item in peopleAndCitiesList)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("{0}:{1}", item.PersonName, item.CityName);
                }
            }
        }
    }

SELECT 
          [Extent1].[BornInCityId] AS [BornInCityId], 
          [Extent1].[Name] AS [Name], 
          [Extent2].[Name] AS [Name1]
FROM  [dbo].[People] AS [Extent1]
INNER JOIN [dbo].[Cities] AS [Extent2] ON [Extent1].[BornInCityId] = [Extent2].[Id]

var peopleAndCitiesList = context.People
                                  .Select(person => new
                                                         {
                                                             PersonName = person.Name,
                                                             CityName = person.BornInCity.Name
                                                         });

var citiesList = context.Cities.OrderByDescending(x => x.People.Count());
foreach (var item in citiesList)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0}", item.Name);
}

SELECT 
[Project1].[Id] AS [Id], 
[Project1].[Name] AS [Name]
FROM ( SELECT 
        [Extent1].[Id] AS [Id], 
        [Extent1].[Name] AS [Name], 
        (SELECT 
                COUNT(1) AS [A1]
                FROM [dbo].[People] AS [Extent2]
                WHERE [Extent1].[Id] = [Extent2].[BornInCityId]) AS [C1]
        FROM [dbo].[Cities] AS [Extent1]
)  AS [Project1]
ORDER BY [Project1].[C1] DESC

 var peopleAndCitiesList = context.Cities
                                     .Select(city => new
                                                 {
                                                     InUseCount = city.People.Count(),
                                                     CityName = city.Name
                                                 });

foreach (var item in peopleAndCitiesList)
{
     Console.WriteLine("{0}:{1}", item.CityName, item.InUseCount);
}

SELECT 
[Extent1].[Id] AS [Id], 
(SELECT 
        COUNT(1) AS [A1]
        FROM [dbo].[People] AS [Extent2]
        WHERE [Extent1].[Id] = [Extent2].[BornInCityId]) AS [C1], 
[Extent1].[Name] AS [Name]
FROM [dbo].[Cities] AS [Extent1]

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