System.Data.Entity.Spatial replacement in ASP.NET Core

Question

I am trying to migrate a webform from ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core MVC. Currently I am trying to find a way to replace:

using System.Data.Entity.Spatial;

since it is not currently available in .NET Core or I may have not been able to find it.

Is there a way of including this package? Maybe through a NuGet package?

Ps. I read Microsoft guideline briefly but could not find anything related to it. For anyone who may be in a similar situation, the guide is here: https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/migration/mvc.html

(Sorry if I couldn't write a good question, I am trying to get used to the system here)

Answer 1

Edit

This feature is new in EF Core 2.2

Spatial Data now added to EF Core 2.2 (see documentation)

---

Before EF Core 2.2 versions use this:

Now you can use Microsoft.Spatial for geography and geometry spatial operations.

ofc , EntityframeworkCore does not support spatial, so you can not create a field with geography data type in codefirst, I suggest you to do this with pure SQL commends until EntityframeworkCore supports spatial in Q2 2017 (See this). If you don't know how I will tell you.

1. First of all you need to add a field with geography data type, so you need to run this commend in one of migrations up classes :

   protected override void Up(MigrationBuilder migrationBuilder)
   {
       migrationBuilder.Sql("ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Cities] ADD [Location] geography");
   }
   

2. if you are using UnitOfWork you can update Location field after you inserted a record like this :

       try
       {
           City city = new City
           {
               Title = creator.Title
           };
   
           _cities.Add(city);
   
           _uow.ExecuteSqlCommand("UPDATE Cities SET Location = geography::STPointFromText('POINT(' + CAST({0} AS VARCHAR(20)) + ' ' + CAST({1} AS VARCHAR(20)) + ')', 4326) WHERE(ID = {2})", city.Longitude, city.Latitude, city.ID);
   
           return RedirectToAction("Index");
       }
       catch
       {
           return View(creator);
       }
   

3. And now if you want to find nearby cities, you can use this commend :

       var cities = _uow.Set<City>()
           .FromSql(@"DECLARE @g geography = geography::STPointFromText('POINT(' + CAST({0} AS VARCHAR(20)) + ' ' + CAST({1} AS VARCHAR(20)) + ')', 4326);
                      Select ID, Address, CreationDate, CreationDateInPersian, CreationDateStandard, CreatorRealName, CreatorUserID, ExLanguageID, IsActive, IsDeleted, Latitude, Longitude, ModifierRealName, ModifierUserID, ModifyDate, ModifyDateInPersian, ModifyDateStandard, PhoneNumbers, Summary, TimeStamp, Title, Image from Cities
                      ORDER BY Location.STDistance(@g) DESC;",
                      35.738083, 51.591263)
                      .Select(x => new AllRecordsViewModel
                      {
                          ID = x.ID,
                          Title = x.Title
                      })
           .ToList();
   
       return View(cities);
   

// result for nearest cities :

1.Tehran
2.Ankara
3.Paris
4.Washington DC

Remember! you should select all of records except that field with geography data type!