--- title: DbContext Register and Lifetime | daily.dev description: The post explains how to register DbContext in a .NET Core container using the AddDbContext extension method. It highlights that the DbContext is registered... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dbcontext-register-and-lifetime-u3d9rk0ja twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DbContext Register and Lifetime | daily.dev og:description: The post explains how to register DbContext in a .NET Core container using the AddDbContext extension method. It highlights that the DbContext is registered... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dbcontext-register-and-lifetime-u3d9rk0ja og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/u3d9Rk0Ja.png og:image:alt: DbContext Register and Lifetime og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DbContext Register and Lifetime **[C\# Corner](https://daily.dev/sources/csharpcorner)** · 2 min read · 18 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post explains how to register DbContext in a .NET Core container using the AddDbContext extension method. It highlights that the DbContext is registered with a scoped lifetime by default, which is safe for most ASP.NET Core applications due to separate dependency injection scopes for each request. Verification methods and examples are provided to demonstrate this behavior. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#.net-core](https://daily.dev/tags/.net-core), [#dependency-injection](https://daily.dev/tags/dependency-injection), [#aspnetcore](https://daily.dev/tags/aspnetcore) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/dbcontext-register-and-lifetime-u3d9rk0ja) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"DbContext Register and Lifetime","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dbcontext-register-and-lifetime-u3d9rk0ja","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/dbcontext-register-and-lifetime-u3d9rk0ja"},"datePublished":"2024-07-29T01:24:44.248Z","dateModified":"2024-08-23T16:20:06.546Z","description":"The post explains how to register DbContext in a .NET Core container using the AddDbContext extension method. It highlights that the DbContext is registered...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6190abb3db4f471ee3fffa41e7769ea1?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6190abb3db4f471ee3fffa41e7769ea1?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"C# Corner","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"C# Corner","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/ada2d584df6241748fc4e71878dc70a3","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/csharpcorner"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/dbcontext-register-and-lifetime-u3d9rk0ja","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":18},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":".net,.net-core,dependency-injection,aspnetcore","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"C# Corner","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/csharpcorner"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"DbContext Register and Lifetime"}]} ```