EF Core 3.1 changes

01 Mar 2020

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NDC video "Getting the best out of Entity Framework Core - Jon P Smith" recommended by Paul.

Breaking changes included in EF Core 3.0
New features in Entity Framework Core 3.0
Entity Framework Core 3.0: A Foundation for the Future
Entity Framework Core - Improved Value Conversion Support - Technically it talks about 2.1 but it's still relevant in 3.1. Also the 3.1 value converters work much better than in 2.1. This article Using Noda Time with Entity Framework Core talks about the value converters for NodaTime. They were evaluated in memory in ef core 2.1 and now are translated properly in ef core 3.1
EF configuration for Generated Values
Migrating to dotnetcore 3.1 (mostly EFCore)


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