[gwbas1c]

In general, if you use your database domain (classes) in your business logic, you will have pitfalls when working with your database. This either leads to the N+1 problem (when you use lazy loading), or data structures where a relationship will be null when you try to traverse it.

(Basically, if you use lazy loading, your code will be slow and may require major refactors late in the project life. If you use aggressive loading, your code may have bugs when expected relationships aren't populated.)

I should point out that this isn't purely an EF core limitation! The "correct" approach is to always copy objects from database domain (classes) to business logic domain (classes); but this is often more effort than it's worth.

[vidanay]

I'd be really interested to know some recommended methods of realizing having separate db and domain classes. I'm actually in the early phases of a project where I have been using the Memento pattern to save and restore domain entities. I'm about ready to rip it out and switch back to persisting the domain classes directly in the db because it's so tedious. (using EF Core 7 and C#)