Welcome to the Entity Framework Core Project Wiki

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology.

EF Core is an object-relational mapper (O/RM) that enables .NET developers to work with a database using .NET objects. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that developers usually need to write.

Contents

• The official documentation of EF Core is located in the Microsoft Docs site.
• The EF Core Roadmap is located in the documentation.
• People writing a provider should start with the information in the documentation.

Here in the wiki, you will find the following important content:

• Getting and building the code
• Guiding Principles

Design notes archive

Design meeting notes are archived as issues in our issue tracker.

In addition, we have a few old design documents here. Note that some of the documents may still refer to EF Core as "EF 7", a name we used before release.

• Security
• Visual Studio Publish Integration
• SqlClient for EF Core
• NuGet Package Naming