Take advantage of these 10 strategies to improve data access performance when using Entity Framework Core in your data-driven .NET applications. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is an open source ORM ...

It's critical to understand that FromSql is much more limited than SqlQuery in terms of what it can return. SqlQuery, which was available from the DbContext's Database object, allowed you to submit ...

Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 was released on March 14th. The most notable feature in EF Core 8 preview 2 is support for SQL Server hierarchical data. The EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.HierarchyId ...

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What do you do when your simple Entity Framework app isn't so simple anymore and entity relationships are getting complex and you're getting worried about performance problems? Can you even use EF in ...

Microsoft on Thursday released code for its Entity Framework database mapping tool via open source in an effort to increase transparency. The move is being handled by Microsoft Open Technologies, a ...