The Dotnet Doctor 14. 01. 2021 10: 32 o’clock Holger Schwichtenberg – 0 Comments

Microsoft has published a list of features that are available in version 6.0 of the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) Entity Framework Core in the November 2021 should appear.

Microsoft wants Support column types in JSON format and especially for Microsoft SQL Server temporal tables in all database systems. When creating database tables using forward engineering, the order of the columns should now be able to be influenced.

Microsoft now plans to implement the “Migration Bundle” feature planned for version 5.0 in version 6.0. As an alternative to an SQL script, an executable file should be generated that updates the database schema (developers can already build this themselves in just a few steps).

Reverse engineering and batching API With reverse engineering, Microsoft now wants to translate pure intermediate tables into N: M skip navigations. The support for N: M skip navigation was implemented in version 5.0, but only activated for forward engineering. For ADO.NET there should be a new batching API (class DbBatch ); Microsoft also wants to use this in Entity Framework Core.

As in every version of Entity Framework Core, Microsoft also wants to work on performance and compatibility with its predecessor, the classic ADO.NET Entity Framework, improve. Ahead-of-time compilation (AoT) support, which is generally on the agenda for .NET 6.0, should be at least partially supported in Entity Framework Core 6.0.