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See Updated 'What's New' Docs for Entity Framework 7 Release Candidate 1

By David Ramel
09/22/2022

With Microsoft developers focused on finishing touches ahead of the November debut of Entity Framework 7, the company has updated the corresponding "what's new" documentation to help keep track of all the changes while shipping Release Candidate 1.

Just as with other properties like .NET 7 itself and .NET MAUI, EF7 RC1 sees the team concentrating on addressing defects and minor enhancements while putting the finishing touches on features, said principal program manager Jeremy Likness in a recent announcement.

**[Click on image for larger view.]** Highly Requested Features on Themes of .NET Site *(source: Microsoft).*

The above graphic shows the general plan for EF7 as outlined in Microsoft's Themes of .NET Site, while the graphic below shows the corresponding proposed Deliver highly-requested user features for EF Core GitHub issue.

**[Click on image for larger view.]** GitHub 'Deliver Highly-Requested User Features for EF Core' Issue *(source: Microsoft).*

Detailing all of that stuff is the updated "What's New in EF Core 7.0" documentation, which has an outline something like this:

JSON Columns
- Mapping to JSON columns
- Queries into JSON columns
- Updating JSON columns
ExecuteUpdate and ExecuteDelete (Bulk updates)
- Basic ExecuteDelete examples
- Basic ExecuteUpdate examples
- Inheritance and multiple tables
- ExecuteDelete and relationships
Table-Per-Concrete-Type (TPC) Inheritance Mapping
- TPC database schema
- Configuring TPC inheritance
- TPH queries
- TPT queries
- TPC queries
- TPC inserts and updates
- Space considerations
- Key generation
- Foreign key constraints
- Summary and guidance
Custom Reverse Engineering Templates
- Model building conventions
- Removing an existing convention
- Adding a new convention
- Replacing an existing convention

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David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.

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