[Click on image for larger view.] EF Core on NuGet (source: Microsoft). And to show you how to use the shiny new toys, expert developer/author/trainer Ben Day will present an in-person session titled ...

Take advantage of these 10 strategies to improve data access performance when using Entity Framework Core in your data-driven .NET applications.

In this article we will examine how we can configure the DbContext using an instance of DbContextOptions to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using the Entity Framework Core provider.

Assuming that you're using Entity Framework 6, you already have a logging tool that can give you some insights into the SQL your queries are generating and the time they take to run. The Database ...