Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core

© Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse 2017

Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3018-3_32

32. Introducing Entity Framework Core

Andrew Troelsen¹  and Philip Japikse²

(1)Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(2)West Chester, Ohio, USA

Microsoft released Entity Framework Core along with .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. EF Core is a complete rewrite of EF, taking advantage of all the goodness that is .NET Core. However, being a rewrite, there wasn’t time to re-create all of the features in EF 6 within the timeline of the release of .NET Core 1.0. Based on feature comparison, the first version was, well simply put, weak. There really weren’t enough features to consider it a production-ready product.

That all changed with the ...