Jeremy Likness, Author at .NET Blog

Jeremy Likness

Senior Program Manager - .NET Data, .NET

Jeremy is a Senior Program Manager for .NET Data at Microsoft. Jeremy wrote his first program in 1982, was recognized in the "who's who in Quake" list for programming the first implementation of "Midnight Capture the Flag" in Quake C and has been developing enterprise applications for 25 years with a primary focus on web-based delivery of line of business applications. Jeremy is the author of four technology books, a former 8-year Microsoft MVP for Developer Tools and Technologies, is an international and keynote speaker and writes regularly on cloud and container development. Jeremy follows a 100% plant-based diet and spends most of his free time running, hiking and camping, and playing 9-ball and one pocket.

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Announcing Entity Framework Core (EFCore) 5.0 RC1

September 14th, 2020

Announcing Entity Framework EFCore 5.0 RC1, a "go-live" supported release. This release includes new features like many-to-many, property bags, event counters, required 1:1 dependents and the ability to intercept SaveChanges and listen to save events. It also includes improvements to model-building, migrations, and more.

Big Plans for Big Data and .NET for Spark

August 31st, 2020

The .NET for Spark team is seeking your feedback to improve the experience of working with big data in .NET.

Announcing Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 5.0 Preview 8

August 25th, 2020

Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 8 is here with Table-per-type (TPT), table-valued functions support, SQLite table rebuilds for migrations and more.

Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7

July 21st, 2020

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the seventh preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes a factory to create DbContext instances, the ability to reset DbContext state, Cosmos DB improvements including enhanced support for configuration options and partition keys, and much more. In this post To summarize...

Announcing Entity Framework Core EFCore 5.0 Preview 6

June 25th, 2020

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the sixth preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes split queries for related collections, a new "index" attribute, improved exceptions related to query translations, IP address mapping, exposing transaction id for correlation, and much more. Prerequisites EF Core 5.0 will not run ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5

June 10th, 2020

Announcing the release of Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 featuring database collations, flowing arguments to IDesignTimeDbContextFactory, no tracking queries with identity resolution, stored (persisted) columns and SQLite computed columns.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 4

May 19th, 2020

Announcing the release of Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 4 with bug fixes and new features like setting database column precision and configuring SQL Server index fill factor.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 3

April 23rd, 2020

Today we are excited to announce the third preview release of EF Core 5.0. The third previews of .NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 5.0 are also available now. Prerequisites The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means: How to get EF Core 5.0 previews EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 2

April 2nd, 2020

Today we are excited to announce the second preview release of EF Core 5.0. Improvements include support for C# attributes to specify a backing field, complete discriminator mapping, and performance improvements with SQLite.

Explore Azure Cosmos DB with .NET Core and MongoDB

April 9th, 2018

Have you had to design general purpose "metadata" tables in your SQL database that basically store column names and values? Do you often serialize/de-serialize XML or JSON from your SQL tables to handle volatile schemas and data? .NET developers have traditionally worked with relational database management systems (RDMS) like SQL Server. RDMS ...