It has been quite a project to rip out the Entity Framework bits from the old, proprietary Windows-only .NET Framework and put them in its successor, the open source, cross-platform ".NET Core" scheme ...

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Microsoft shipped the first release candidates for its .NET 8 offerings, including the main framework, the .NET MAUI evolution of Xamarin.Forms and the ASP.NET Core web-dev components, not to mention ...

The shift to building on what was originally called .NET Core has brought big changes to .NET. Not only is it now open source and cross-platform, it’s also no longer tied to Windows’ release cycles.

Microsoft .NET 6 marks a new era of developing performant, modern-day applications for web, cloud, desktop, and mobile devices. Microsoft .NET 6 is the culmination of the .NET unification that started ...

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 ...

In context: The .NET Framework technology has been part of the Windows platform since the NT 4.0/XP era, providing developers with an integrated environment (class library, language interoperability, ...