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Announcing Entity Framework Core EF Core 5.0 Preview 7

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 What's New in EF Core...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 3

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: EF Core 5.0 runs on .NET Core 3.1; it does not require .NET 5. This may change in future previews ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 1

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: EF Core 5.0 runs on .NET Core 3.1; it does not require .NET 5. This may change in future previews depending on how the plan for .NET 5 evolves. EF Core 5.0 runs on other platforms ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4

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

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 ...