entity framework

While many software developers would prefer to sell software as a service (SaaS), there’s a market for offering your customers a self-hosted solution tailored to their infrastructure choices. Of course, one essential element of any modern software solution is the database, but in 2022 there are hundreds of battle-tested storage solutions. For example, the Entity Framework Core library supports over ten popular database engines, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. Sometimes, you may want to use more than one of the stated database providers. This post will

In this post, we'll look at some pitfalls and ideas EF Core users like yourself may want to consider when developing an application. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a ground-up rewrite of Microsoft's object-database mapping framework. Getting started with EF Core is relatively straightforward, but mastering it can take an entire career. As a long-time user of earlier Entity Framework versions, I started writing this post with many preconceived notions about pitfalls from that experience. While some conceptual pitfalls have made it from previous versions of EF, the EF Core team's care in add

With the .NET 5 release comes the newest Entity Framework Core version, unsurprisingly called Entity Framework Core 5 (EF Core 5). The .NET community got its first glimpse of Entity Framework (EF) on August 11th, 2008, with the release of .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Let's say a few things have changed since the initial release. For those unfamiliar with the technology, Entity Framework is an object-relational mapper (ORM), helping developers overcome the impedance mismatches between C# and a database instance's schema. Entity Framework has come a long way since its original inception.