The Entity Framework is now expected in the first half of 2008 as an Orcas extension to the .NET Framework, according to Microsoft blogger Mike Pizzo, an architect with the Data Programmability team.

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, open source and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology. The company is working toward a unified offering ...

The latest version of the technology works fine with the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Here's some of what's new (along with how to move your applications to EF6).

The Entity Framework team disassociated itself from the .NET Framework release schedule after EF 4.0 was released with .NET 4.0. The first manifestation of that new policy came last spring when the EF ...

Entity Framework (EF) Core, Microsoft's object-to-database mapper library for .NET Framework, brings performance improvements for data updates in version 7, Microsoft claims.

Entity Framework Core 8, scheduled for release in November 2023, brings new features and new improvements to features already introduced in EF Core 7. Notable features include: support for raw SQL ...

The following is a generic repository for Entity Framework 6 with methods for both synchronous and asynchronous data operations.

Until recently, designing your system this way was significantly more complicated. With the .NET framework 4.5 and Entity Framework 6, the task has become trivial.

Handling concurrency conflicts in Entity Framework Let’s now understand how each of these strategies work in Entity Framework.