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Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.1

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16

Rowan Miller

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core 1.1 available. EF Core follows the same release cycle as .NET Core. Continuous improvements every 2 months and new features released every 6 months. This is the first feature release since 1.0...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.1 Preview 1

October 25, 2016 Oct 25, 2016 10/25/16

Rowan Miller

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core 1.1 Preview 1 available. Upgrading to 1.1 Preview 1 If you are using one of the database providers shipped by the EF Team (SQL Server, SQLite, and InMemory), then just upgrade your provider ...

Entity Framework Core 1.1 Plans

July 29, 2016 Jul 29, 2016 07/29/16

Rowan Miller

Now that Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 1.0 is released, our team is beginning work on bug fixes and new features for the 1.1 release. Keep in mind that it's early days for this release, we're sharing our plans in order to be open, but there is a high chance things will evolve as we go. High level goals Our goal with 1.1 release is to make ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.0

June 27, 2016 Jun 27, 2016 06/27/16

Rowan Miller

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core 1.0.0 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. Upgrading from RC2 to RTM If you are upgrading an application from RC2 to RTM, be sure to read our Upgrading ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core RC2

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16

Rowan Miller

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2. EF Core, formerly known as EF7 Between RC1 and RC2, we changed from Entity Framework 7 to Entity Framework Core ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core RC2

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16

Rowan Miller

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. Today we are making Entity Framework Core RC2 available. This coincides with the release of .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2. EF Core, formerly known as EF7 Between RC1 and RC2, we changed from Entity Framework 7 to Entity Framework Core ...

Entity Framework 7 RC1 Available

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15

Rowan Miller

Today we are making Entity Framework 7 RC1 available. EF7 will be the next major release of Entity Framework and is currently in pre-release.   When to use EF7 As discussed in our EF7 – v1 or v7 post, EF7 introduces some significant changes and improvements over EF6.x. Because EF7 is based on a new core, the features from EF6.x do ...