EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. Entity Framework Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. EF Core works with many databases, including SQL Database (on-premises and Azure), SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Azure Cosmos DB. To install EF Core, you install the package for the EF Core database provider(s) you want to target. This tutorial uses SQLite because it runs on all platforms that .NET Core supports. This application intentionally keeps things simple for clarity. Connection strings should not be stored in the code for production applications. You may also want to split each C# class into its own file. Query and manage relational data in a .NET Core app with an Object-Relational Mapper (O/RM).

Features

  • It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations
  • EF Core works with SQL Server/SQL Azure, SQLite, Azure Cosmos DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and many more databases
  • EF Core includes a database provider plugin model
  • EF Core offers new features that won't be implemented in EF6
  • Provides constructors with parameters and property value conversions
  • Provides mapped types with no keys, conventions, and data annotations

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Apache License V2.0

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Operating Systems

Windows

Programming Language

C#

Related Categories

C# Database Software, C# Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) Software

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2021-06-03