How to use the InMemory provider in Entity Framework Core to test your methods without hitting the database or using fakes and mocks The InMemory database provider is an exciting feature in newer ...

Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...

The .NET Entity Framework has come a long way since its early beginnings as an NHibernate alternative and the successor to LinqToSQL. Currently in version 6.0, the ORM is stable and mature but you ...

In both deletes and updates there's an assumption that you have to retrieve the corresponding entity object from the database. With an update, you pull back the object so that you can set its ...

Here's a tip about how to exploit Entity Framework's change tracking mechanism to -- possibly -- eliminate a trip to the database when you update an item. But, without some additional code, you ...