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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...

.NET Core Data Access

November 9, 2016 Nov 9, 2016 11/9/16
Bertrand Le Roy
.NET Core was released a few months ago, and data access libraries for most databases, both relational and NoSQL are now available. In this post, I'll detail what client libraries are available, as well as show code samples for each of them. ORM EF Core Entity Framework is Microsoft's Object-Relational Mapper for .NET, and as such is one of...

The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT and .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands – Markdown Monster

November 8, 2016 Nov 8, 2016 11/8/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros. On .NET Last week, Mei-Chin Tsai and Jan Kotas were on the show: This week, we won't be streaming live, but we'll be taking advantage of the presence of many MVPs on campus for the MVP Summit to speak with as many of them as possible in ...

The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – .NET, ASP.NET, EF Core 1.1 Preview 1 – On .NET on EF Core 1.1 – Changelog – FluentValidation – Reverse: Time Collapse. On .NET: Martin Woodward on the .NET Foundation Last week, Martin Woodward was on the show to talk about the .NET Foundation: This week, we'll speak with Mei-Chin...

The week in .NET – .NET, ASP.NET, EF Core 1.1 Preview 1 – On .NET on EF Core 1.1 – Changelog – FluentValidation – Reverse: Time Collapse

October 25, 2016 Oct 25, 2016 10/25/16
Bertrand Le Roy
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – Bond – The Gallery. Preview 1 of .NET Core 1.1, ASP.NET Core 1.1, and EF Core 1.1 announced Preview 1 versions of .NET Core 1.1, ASP.NET Core 1.1, and Entity Framework Core 1.1 were released today. Check out the blog posts to discover the new features! On .NET Last week, ...

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 ...

.NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15”

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16
.NET Team
This post was co-authored by David Carmona, a Principal Program Manager Lead in .NET Team and Joe Morris, a Senior Program Manager in .NET Team. Couple of weeks back, we dedicated a blog post introducing .NET Standard 2.0, which will significantly extend your ability to share code by unifying .NET APIs across all application types and ...

Hosting .NET Core Services on Service Fabric

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16
Mike Rousos
This post was written by Vaijanath Angadihiremath, a software engineer on the .NET team. This tutorial is for users who already have a group of ASP.NET Core services which they want to host as microservices in Azure using Azure Service Fabric. Azure Service Fabric is a great way to host microservices in a PaaS world to obtain many benefits ...

Implementing Seeding, Custom Conventions and Interceptors in EF Core 1.0

September 29, 2016 Sep 29, 2016 09/29/16
Mike Rousos
This post was written by Alina Popa, a software engineer on the .NET team. Updated 10/5/2016: This post has been updated to use improved Entity Framework Core techniques which don’t rely on internal APIs. Implementing Seeding, Custom Conventions and Interceptors in EF Core 1.0 Introduction Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a ...