Articles filed in category 'EF Core'

Some Overlooked EF Core 7 Changes and Improvements

By: Julie Lerman

Last updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - March/April

Great updates for EF Core 7 include explicit methods FromSqlRaw and FromSqlInterpolated. The SqlQuery method lets you pass in a raw SQL query to get scalar data directly from the database. And many more cool features. Read about them in Julie's article.

• .NET 6
• .NET 7
• .NET Core
• .NET Core Tools
• Database
• EF Core
• Entity Framework
• SQL Server 2016

EF Core 7: It Just Keeps Getting Better

By: Julie Lerman

Last updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2022 - Vol. 19 - Issue 1 - .NET 7.0

Julie Lerman surveys EF Core 7’s notable advances—focused on substantial performance optimizations, true bulk ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteDelete, JSON column mapping, stored-procedure mapping, new interceptors (including materialization), richer provider-specific aggregates, improved convention customization, and greater EF6 parity—arguing these features make EF Core 7 a faster, more flexible, and production-ready platform worth adopting even on .NET 6 LTS.

• EF Core
• Entity Framework

Change Tracking Mixed-State Graphs in EF Core

By: Julie Lerman

Last updated: Friday, January 10, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - May/June

Julie says that integration testing is the key to tracking changes in EF Core. Learn what you need to know to get up and running with it.

• Change Management
• EF Core

EF Core 6: Fulfilling the Bucket List

By: Julie Lerman

Last updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2021 - Vol. 18 - Issue 1 - .NET 6.0

Julie Lerman surveys EF Core 6 as a curated “bucket list” release, highlighting how the team prioritized long-desired enhancements across performance, modeling, migrations, and provider support. She emphasizes dramatic query speed gains, startup-model pre-compilation, standalone migrations bundles, and native temporal-table support, along with bulk configuration, expanded GroupBy capabilities, and Cosmos DB improvements such as implicit ownership and richer logging. The article blends practical how-tos with context on planning transparency and community feedback, illustrating EF Core 6 as a thoughtful evolution that narrows gaps with EF6 while expanding nonrelational support.

• EF Core

Tapping into EF Core’s Pipeline

By: Julie Lerman

Last updated: Friday, January 31, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - March/April

Julie describes new EF Core 5 metadata features and how to use them, including ToQueryString, DbCloggerCategory, DbContext.SavingChanges, DbContext.SavedChanges, DbContext.SaveChangesFailed, Dotnet-counters, ChangeTracker.DebugView and Model.DebugView.

• .NET Core
• .NET Core Tools
• Data
• Database
• EF Core
• Entity Framework
• SQL Server
• SQL Server 2016