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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 o

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 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 foll

Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!

Sarah OslundMarch 10, 2020Mar 10, 202003/10/20

Today we are releasing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool for Windows and Mac! Starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, Visual Studio manages the versions of the SDK and runtime it installs. In previous versions, SDKs and runtimes were left on upgrade in case those versions were targeted or pinned with global.json. We realized this was not idea

An Introduction to DataFrame

Prashanth GovindarajanDecember 16, 2019Dec 16, 201912/16/19

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we're announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you've used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you'll already be familiar with the concept of a DataFrame.

.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019

Lee CowardDecember 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19

.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS ("Current") release, it is supported for three months after the next release. .NET Core 3.0 was released on September 23, 2019. As a result, .NET Core 2.2 is supported until December 23, 2019. After that time, .NET Core patch updates will no longer include updated packages of contai

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

Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core

.NET TeamNovember 11, 2019Nov 11, 201911/11/19

This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more information, see https://pulumi.com/dotnet. We are excited to announce .NET Core support f

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