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Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7

Jeremy LiknessJuly 21, 2020Jul 21, 202007/21/20

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

Jeremy LiknessJune 25, 2020Jun 25, 202006/25/20

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

Jeremy LiknessJune 10, 2020Jun 10, 202006/10/20

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

Jeremy LiknessMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

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

Jeremy LiknessApril 23, 2020Apr 23, 202004/23/20

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

Jeremy LiknessApril 2, 2020Apr 2, 202004/2/20

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.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 1

Arthur VickersMarch 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20

Today we are excited to announce the first preview release of EF Core 5.0. 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 packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can use the ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4

Arthur VickersDecember 3, 2019Dec 3, 201912/3/19

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4 We are excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.1 and EF 6.4 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.1 and ASP.NET Core 3.1 are also available now. How to get EF Core 3.1 EF Core 3.1 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 General Availability

Diego VegaSeptember 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19

We are extremely excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.0and EF 6.3 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available now. How to get EF Core 3.0 EF Core 3.0 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can ...

Release Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 are now available

Diego VegaSeptember 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19

We previously said that preview 9 would be your last chance to test EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 before general availability. But it turns out that we made enough improvements to our libraries and across the whole of .NET Core 3.0 to justify publishing a release candidate build. Hence the packages for EF Core 3.0 RC1 and EF 6.3 RC1 were uploaded to ...

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