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Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 RC 1

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Diego Vega
Today, we are excited to announce that the first release candidate of EF Core 2.1 is available, alongside .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 RC 1, for broad testing, and now also for production use! Go live support EF Core 2.1 RC1 is a "go live" release, which means once you test that your application works correctly with RC1, you can ...

.NET Highlights in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 4

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
.NET Team
As you know we continue to incrementally improve Visual Studio 2017 (version 15), and our 7th significant update is currently well under way with the 4th preview shipping today. As we’re winding down the preview, we’d like to stop and take the time to tell you about all of the great updates that are coming in Visual Studio version 15.7 for...

Publish Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
picru
Today we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. Our 15.7 update brings some exciting updates for publishing applications from Visual Studio that we’re excited to tell you about, including: Configure settings before publishing When publishing your ASP.NET Core applications to either a folder or Azure App Service you can ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 2

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18
Diego Vega
Today we’re releasing the second preview of EF Core 2.1, alongside .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2. Thank you so much to everyone who has tried our early builds and has helped shape this release with their feedback and code contributions! The new preview bits are now available in NuGet as individual packages, ...

Explore Azure Cosmos DB with .NET Core and MongoDB

April 9, 2018 Apr 9, 2018 04/9/18
Jeremy Likness
Have you had to design general purpose "metadata" tables in your SQL database that basically store column names and values? Do you often serialize/de-serialize XML or JSON from your SQL tables to handle volatile schemas and data? .NET developers have traditionally worked with relational database management systems (RDMS) like SQL Server. RDMS ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 1

February 27, 2018 Feb 27, 2018 02/27/18
Diego Vega
Today we are releasing the first preview of EF Core 2.1, alongside .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 1. The new bits are available in NuGet as part of the individual packages, and as part of the ASP.NET Core meta-packages (both Microsoft.AspNetCore.All and the new Microsoft.AspNetCore.App), and included in the .NET Core ...

Entity Framework Core 2.1 Roadmap

February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18
Diego Vega
As mentioned in the announcement of the .NET Core 2.1 roadmap earlier today, at this point we know the overall shape of our next release and we have decided on a general schedule for it. As we approach the release of our first preview later this month, we also wanted to expand on what we have planned for Entity Framework Core 2.1. New ...