Automatic Audit Fields in EF Core | Change Tracker Tutorial
Learn how to implement a Change Tracker in your Auditable Entity to automatically record create, update, and delete operations in your applications. In this video, we break down how to capture metadata such as CreatedBy, CreatedOn, LastModifiedBy, LastModifiedOn, and more—ensuring full transparency and accountability in your data layer.
Whether you're working with Entity Framework Core, building clean architecture solutions, or simply improving your app’s audit trail, this step-by-step guide will help you understand why change tracking matters and how to implement it efficiently.
What You’ll Learn:
1. What an Auditable Entity is
2.How Change Tracker works under the hood
3.Automatically updating audit fields
4.Best practices for clean and maintainable audit logic
5.Real-world examples and common pitfalls
Perfect for: .NET developers, backend engineers, and anyone implementing auditing in their applications.
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00:00 – Introduction
02:16 – Create Audit Entity
04:58 – Add Migration
06:16 – Update Database
08:31– Populate Audit columns
16:10– Summary
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