Entity Framework Core 7 (EF7) Preview 3 is out with improvements to the update pipeline along with initial preview support for scaffolding (database-first) templates and more. Improvements to the ...

With Entity Framework, you don't need to retrieve an item from the database in order to make a change to it … but, without some change tracking mechanism, you probably won't get the update you want.

Entity Framework Core allows you to store and retrieve data to and from an in-memory database. It’s a quick and easy way to test your ASP.NET Core 6 web applications.

For the first time mainstream .NET development had a superb mechanism, in the form of LINQ, for programming the object-relational impedance mismatch. Although Visual Studio 2008 presented two database ...

When you call Entity Framework's SaveChanges method, Entity Framework has to know what entities have changed in order to figure out what SQL Update/Delete/Insert statements to generate. If you also ...

Microsoft has released .NET Core 3.0 for Windows, macOS, and Linux with a host of improvements, as well as Visual Studio 2019 16.3 and Visual Studio for Mac 8.3. The company announced .NET Core 3. ...

The InMemory data provider in Entity Framework makes life simpler by letting you test the code of ... Follow the steps outlined below to create a Web API project using ASP.Net Core in Visual Studio.