Take advantage of the DbContext in Entity Framework Core to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using CLR objects Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an open-source object-relational mapper, ...

When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...

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Microsoft has shipped the first preview of .NET Core 2.1 -- its modularized, open source, cross-platform evolution of the .NET Framework and runtime -- along with associated "Core" packages for ...

Microsoft ORM Mapper learns column types Vector and JSON in Microsoft SQL Server 2025. At the same time, there is a first insider version of Visual Studio 2026. According to Microsoft's plan, .NET ...

The .NET Entity Framework has come a long way since its early beginnings as an NHibernate alternative and the successor to LinqToSQL. Currently in version 6.0, the ORM is stable and mature but you ...