Microsoft reveals plans for Entity Framework 7.0
Entity Framework Core 7.0, a planned update to Microsoft’s open source, cross-platform, object-relational mapper (ORM), will focus on themes such as JSON and SQL queriesAlso referred to as EF Core 7, or EF7, the update, due in November 2022, will be the the next release after EF Core 6, which arrived last month, according to a Microsoft blog post published December 15. There are no plans for a EF Core 6.1 release, Microsoft said. [ Also on InfoWorld: What’s new in Microsoft .NET 6 ] Among the themes slated for investment in EF7 is JSON columns, with users able to save and query into JSON-based documents stored in relational database columns. The capability is slated to introduce a common mechanism and patterns for JSON support that can be implemented by any database provider. Plans call for working with the community to align existing implementations for PostgreSQL and MySQL while adding support for SQL Server and SQL Server Lite.To read this article in full, please click here
Entity Framework Core 7.0, a planned update to Microsoft’s open source, cross-platform, object-relational mapper (ORM), will focus on themes such as JSON and SQL queries
Also referred to as EF Core 7, or EF7, the update, due in November 2022, will be the the next release after EF Core 6, which arrived last month, according to a Microsoft blog post published December 15. There are no plans for a EF Core 6.1 release, Microsoft said.
Among the themes slated for investment in EF7 is JSON columns, with users able to save and query into JSON-based documents stored in relational database columns. The capability is slated to introduce a common mechanism and patterns for JSON support that can be implemented by any database provider. Plans call for working with the community to align existing implementations for PostgreSQL and MySQL while adding support for SQL Server and SQL Server Lite.
