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EF7 RC1 & EF Moving to the .NET Blog

Moving to the .NET BlogLike a number of other teams that write libraries for the .NET Framework, we...

Date: 11/18/2015

EF7 Beta 8 Available

Today we are making Entity Framework 7 Beta 8 available. EF7 will be the next major release of...

Date: 10/15/2015

EF7 Beta 6 Available

Today we are making Entity Framework 7 Beta 6 available. EF7 will be the next major release of...

Date: 07/27/2015

Entity Framework and Visual Studio 2015 RTM

Today Soma announced the availability of Visual Studio 2015. Our team is concurrently working on...

Date: 07/19/2015

Entity Framework and Visual Studio 2015 RC

Today Soma announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015. Our team is concurrently working...

Date: 04/29/2015

EF6.1.3 RTM Available

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6.1.3. This patch release contains only high...

Date: 03/10/2015

EF6.1.3 Beta 1 Available

Today we are making Beta 1 of the EF6.1.3 release available. This patch release contains only high...

Date: 02/12/2015

EF6.1.2 RTM Available

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6.1.2. This patch release includes a number...

Date: 12/22/2014

EF7 - Priorities, Focus, and Initial Release

We all know, you don’t get to write software in a vacuum. Aside from the technical task we are...

Date: 12/02/2014

EF6.1.2 Beta 2 Available

Today we are making Beta 2 of the EF6.1.2 release available. This patch release contains bug fixes...

Date: 11/14/2014

Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Entity Framework

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Preview. You can download it...

Date: 11/12/2014

EF7 – v1 or v7?

A while ago we blogged about EF7 targeting new platforms and new data stores. In that post we shared...

Date: 10/27/2014

EF7 - What Does “Code First Only” Really Mean

A while back we blogged about our plans to make EF7 a lightweight and extensible version of EF that...

Date: 10/21/2014

EF6.1.2 Beta 1 Available

Today we are making Beta 1 of the EF6.1.2 release available. This patch release contains bug fixes...

Date: 09/18/2014

Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 and Entity Framework

Today we’re providing a third CTP of the next version of Visual Studio, to gather your early...

Date: 08/18/2014

VS2013 Update 3 and Entity Framework

Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2013 Update 3. You can read the release announcements by Soma...

Date: 08/04/2014

Visual Studio “14” CTP 2 and Entity Framework

Today we’re providing a second CTP of the next version of Visual Studio, to gather your early...

Date: 07/08/2014

EF 6.1.1 RTM Available

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6.1.1. This patch release includes a number...

Date: 06/20/2014

Visual Studio 14 CTP and Entity Framework

Visual Studio 14 CTP was made available today, see the announcement post on the Visual Studio blog...

Date: 06/03/2014

EF 6.1.1 Beta 1 Available

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6.1.1 Beta 1. This patch release includes a...

Date: 05/20/2014

EF7 - New Platforms, New Data Stores

At TechEd North America we were excited to announce our plans for EF7, and even demo some very early...

Date: 05/19/2014

EF6.1.0 RTM Available

Since the release of EF6 our team has been working on the EF6.1 release. This is our next release...

Date: 03/17/2014

Migrations Screencast Series

We recently published a three part series on using Entity Framework Code First Migrations. The short...

Date: 03/12/2014

Preview of Dynamic Data Provider and EntityDataSource Control for EF6

This post was originally posted on the .NET Web Development and Tools Blog. We are pleased to...

Date: 02/11/2014

EF 6.1.0 Beta 1 Available

Since the release of EF6 our team has started working on the EF6.1 release. This is our next release...

Date: 02/11/2014

EF 6.1 Alpha 1 Available

Since the release of EF6 a couple of months ago our team has started working on the EF6.1 release....

Date: 12/20/2013

EF6.0.2 RTM Available

We recently shared our plans to produce a 6.0.2 patch release to address some performance issues...

Date: 12/13/2013

Microsoft.SqlServer.Types NuGet Package (Spatial on Azure)

Any application that uses Entity Framework’s spatial data type support to target SQL Server...

Date: 12/09/2013

EF6.0.2 Beta 1 Available on NuGet

We recently shared our plans to produce a 6.0.2 patch release to address some performance issues...

Date: 11/26/2013

EF6.0.2 Nightly Builds Available

We recently blogged about our plans to publish a 6.0.2 patch release to address some issues in the...

Date: 11/13/2013

EF Tools Open Source

EF & Open SourceAs we began the EF6 release we moved to an open source development model, you...

Date: 11/04/2013

EF6 Performance Issues

What are the issues?The most common issue being encountered is a significantly slower startup time...

Date: 10/31/2013

EF6 RTM Available

Today we are pleased to announce the RTM of Entity Framework 6. The RTM of Visual Studio 2013 was...

Date: 10/17/2013

EF Power Tools Beta 4 Available

The Entity Framework Power Tools provide additional design-time tools in Visual Studio to help you...

Date: 10/11/2013

This is the fifth post in a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other happenings...

Date: 09/17/2013

EF6 Release Candidate Available

  The information in this post is out of date. EF6 RTM is now available. Visit msdn.com/data/ef...

Date: 08/21/2013

EF and Visual Studio 2013 Preview

  The information in this post is out of date. EF6 RTM is now available. Visit msdn.com/data/ef...

Date: 06/26/2013

EF6 Beta 1 Available

The information in this post is out of date. EF6 RTM is now available. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for...

Date: 05/29/2013

This is the fourth post in a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other...

Date: 03/18/2013

SQL Database Connectivity and the Idempotency Issue

Applications connecting to SQL Server sometimes experience connections breaks due back-end failures....

Date: 03/11/2013

EF6 Alpha 3 Available on NuGet

The information in this post is out of date. EF6 RTM is now available. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for...

Date: 02/27/2013

EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

The information in this post is out of date. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for the latest information on...

Date: 01/30/2013

This is the third post in a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other happenings...

Date: 01/15/2013

EF6 Alpha 2 Available on NuGet

The information in this post is out of date. EF6 RTM is now available. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for...

Date: 12/10/2012

EF Fixes in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download. This update includes three bug fixes for...

Date: 11/27/2012

This is the second post in a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other...

Date: 11/26/2012

EF6 Alpha 1 Available on NuGet

The information in this post is out of date. EF6 RTM is now available. Visit msdn.com/data/ef for...

Date: 10/30/2012

The EF team is starting a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other happenings...

Date: 09/25/2012

EF Nightly Builds Available

A couple of months ago we announced that we are developing EF in an open source code base. As part...

Date: 09/17/2012

EF5 Released

We are very pleased to announce the release of Entity Framework 5. EF5 is available as the Entity...

Date: 08/15/2012

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