What to use instead DbEntityValidationException in EF Core?

Question

With EF I used DbEntityValidationException catch branch (along with others)

catch (DbEntityValidationException exception)
{
    // any statements here...
    throw;
}

Now using .NET Core 3.17 with EF Core 3.17 and apparently there is no DbEntityValidationException and also reviewed EF Core 3.17 sources, and no traces of that exception type. (Note, I am not only talking about where it is defined, I mean it is not thrown any places in the EF Core 3.17 sources)

Question

How to migrate the code above to EF Core 3.17?

Answer 1

When you look at the documentation for DbEntityValidationException, you can see the versions it applies to are only: 4.3.1, 5.0.0, 6.2.0.

Now if you look at the docs for SaveChanges (assuming that's what you're calling inside your try block, you can see that it now only throws DpUpdateException and DbUpdateConcurrencyException. So I think what you probably want is the below, since that should catch any exception while saving to the db. I'd think validation would be included in that.

catch (DbUpdateException exception)
{
    // any statements here...
    throw;
}