Entity Framework Core Power Tools - reverse engineering, migrations and model visualization in Visual Studio & CLI - ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools

.NET 8 introduces metrics to ASP.NET Core. Check out what is new and discover how easy it is to use metrics and ASP.NET Core to monitor the health and activity of apps.

Beginner videos for C#, .NET, AI, NuGet, Visual Studio, VS Code, C# Dev Kit, Blazor Hybrid, IoT, and upgrading .NET applications with .NET 8!

Announcing ML.NET 3.0, with improvements for deep learning, DataFrame, performance, and more!

Build web apps and services that run on Windows, Linux, and macOS using C#, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Get started for free on Windows, Linux, or macOS.

The Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp is now available! The certification is free, globally available, and includes a full training course.

Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.

Languages or language updates: Korean Japanese Polish (in progress) Russian French updates Italian updates Turkish updates Czech German Zh hant Portugese (Brazil) Zh Hans updates Spanish updates Gu...

The current data provider for SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. This has replaced System.Data.SqlClient. These classes provide access to SQL and encapsulate database-specific protocols, including...

Overview of new features in EF Core 8

Announcing EF Core 8 (EF8) with complex types, primitive collections, better JSON, and exciting new query translations!

Announcing the official release of C# 12, including collection expressions, primary constructors, and more!

Managing dependencies on complex projects can be overwhelming. Developers often grapple with numerous direct and transitive dependencies across multiple projects. When different projects share...

An overview of all new .NET 8 features in System.Text.Json for developers.

.NET 8 Preview 3 is now available, with changes to build paths, workloads, Microsoft.Extensions, and containers. It also includes performance improvements in the JIT, for Arm64, and dynamic PGO.

I am really excited to announce that we've reached general availability for Visual Studio 2022. Watch the keynote on YouTube.

Chaos engineering with HTTP clients and Polly library

Announcing EF Core 7 (EF7) with JSON column mapping, bulk updates, TPC, and more!

Join the .NET Conf 2024 free virtual event November 12-14 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!

Jiachen Jiang (PM, Data Access) will walk us through how to work with SQLite using C# and .NET and decide which approach works best for your scenario. They explain the differences between the...

Use the Docker extension for Visual Studio Code to build and run containerized .NET applications easily

We're thrilled to announce .NET 8 Preview 5, featuring enhanced Metrics APIs, SourceLink integration, default Dynamic PGO, and Alpine ASP.NET Docker Composite Images.

Learn how to get started using OpenAI models like GPT with .NET and the Azure SDK

Learn about the new T4 text template utility built with .NET 6

(to demonstrate where dependencies are used and test a build) relates to #1108 Following linked files were removed from the .csproj:

Microsoft has published its plans for Entity Framework (EF) Core 8, its .NET ORM (Object-relational mapping) library, including […]

Today Microsoft announced the availability of .NET 8, the latest version of one of the world’s leading programming languages and development platforms.

EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. - 8.0.2 Milestone · dotnet/efcore

Some useful built-in Entity Framework features that I discovered along the way.

New quickstarts are now available to help you get started with .NET and AI development.

Details and links for each episode of the .NET Data/EF Community Standup

The Azure Monitor Open Telemetry distro has just been released. This library enables monitoring ASP.NET Core apps with Azure monitor a one line change, based on the infrastructure of Open Telemetry...

[Stable release 5.1.5] - 2024-01-29 This update brings the below changes over the previous release: Fixed Fixed connection to unsubscribe from transaction completion events before returning it to ...

The first set of C# 12 features are here in preview including primary constructors, using aliases, and lambda expression parameters.

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a powerful, lightweight, and extensible Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) for .NET applications. It…

Introducing .NET Smart Components, a set of genuinely useful AI-powered UI components that you can quickly and easily add to .NET apps.

Learn about the origin of the building blocks of the Fluent UI Blazor library. We'll talk about FAST, Web Components, Fluent Design, and more.

We are hosting six office hour training streams for the new C# Certification training content.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) RC 1 with support for complex types used as value objects

SQL Server provider for Entity Framework 6 with the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient ADO.NET provider.

Welcome to .NET 9! Learn about how we're improving .NET for all kinds of apps, with a special focus on cloud native, AI, and performance.

The new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant is available in Visual Studio Marketplace with lots of updates and new features!

An introduction to the MongoDB database provider for EF Core, including use of Testcontainers

Learn how to build and test resilient apps in .NET with Dev Proxy to simulate API failures, different network conditions, and a lot more from your local machine.

Adds DateOnly and TimeOnly support to the SQL Server EF Core 7 provider

Entity Framework Core Power Tools - reverse engineering, migrations and model visualization in Visual Studio & CLI - ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools

Learn what ChatGPT is and how you can get started using GPT models in conversations with Azure OpenAI service and .NET

Explores the new logging, metric, and time provider fakes introduced in .NET 8

Jiachen Jiang (PM, Data Access) will walk us through how to work with SQL Server using C# and .NET and decide which approach works best for your scenario. They explain the differences between the...

Learn what completions are and how to use the Azure .NET SDK to generate them using OpenAI.

.NET 8 Preview 4 contains many exciting new features for the runtime and libraries, Native AOT improvements, modern build output and simplified paths, NuGet package security auditing, and much more!

Announcing the official release of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.2, with even faster MVVM source generators, new code fixers, and more!

In this first post of three, we will share information about SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 20 and its connection and security changes

.NET 8 is now available! Check out all the new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core in this release.

A summary of what's new with identity (authentication and authorization) in the latest ASP. NET Core release for .NET 8.

Discover enhanced code coverage tools with better platform support, new report formats and improved performance.

The new tool to help you move your .NET applications from on-premises to Azure is available in Visual Studio Marketplace and as a .NET CLI tool!

.NET 8 RC1 is now available with improvements to System.Text.Json, a new AOT mode for Android and WASM, Azure Managed Identity support for containers, and more!

Entity Framework 8 brings a new feature allowing us to execute and return unmapped types from SQL select statements. In this blog post we'll take a quick look at how we can accomplish this, and why...

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Today we are excited to share with you the plan for Entity Framework Core 8. This issue contains a quick summary of the plan and acts as a place for you to leave feedback. This plan brings together...

The .NET Podcast app is a sample application showcasing .NET, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, Azure Container Apps, Orleans, and more. Pull down the source code and explore the architecture today.

We are updating caching in ASP.NET Core to be more intuitive and reliable

Entity Framework Core Power Tools - reverse engineering, migrations and model visualization in Visual Studio & CLI - ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools

In this post we will explore some of the new features and enhancements that make ASP.NET Core 8 faster and more efficient than ever before.