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

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 on .NE...

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 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.

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 NuGet pa...

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.

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 syste...