The first release candidate for Entity Framework 5 -- Microsoft's object-database mapper for .NET -- has shipped with a go live license, ready for production.

Going forward, ASP.NET 5 will be known as ASP.NET Core 1.0, and .NET Core 5 will be renamed to .NET Core 1.0. Entity Framework 7 also is being rebranded as Entity Framework Core 1.0.

.NET 5 includes ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, WinForms, WPF, Xamarin and ML.NET as well as support for Windows on Arm64. ".NET 5 has already seen a wealth of performance improvements, and ...

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 ...

Building on the rapid growth in the refactored and reinvigorated .NET Core, Microsoft aims to have many existing .NET Framework 4.8 APIs and features run on .NET 5, along with new APIs and services.

Having just shipped .NET Core 3.1, Microsoft is turning its focus to the next stop on its .NET roadmap. Due in November 2020, .NET 5 (no "Core" and no "Framework") will mark the transition from ...