How do you show underlying SQL query in EF Core 2.0?

Question

At 3:15 from the end of this ".NET Core 2.0 Released!" video, Diego Vega shows a demo of new features in Entity Framework Core 2.0. As part of that, a dump of the underlying SQL is shown in the console app.

I have seen many answers on Stack Overflow suggesting that people use an SQL profiler to view the underlying queries. But now I'm curious: how can you do what Diego Vega did, and get the query to show right there in the application?

Answer 1

Hi you can do something like following to display Entity Framework Core generated sql code in output window. In your DbContext class:

public static readonly Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LoggerFactory _myLoggerFactory = 
    new LoggerFactory(new[] { 
        new Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug.DebugLoggerProvider() 
    });

protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
{
    optionsBuilder.UseLoggerFactory(_myLoggerFactory);
}

The debug logger writes messages in the debug output window only when a debugger is attached.

You will have to do following:

• using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
• Install nuget package: Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug