EF Core 8 (EF8) Preview 1
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EF Core 8 (EF8) preview 1 is available from NuGet
Preview 1 contains the following new features:
- Translate element access of a JSON array
- Raw SQL queries for unmapped types
- Support the new BCL DateOnly and TimeOnly structs for SQL Server
- Translate ElementAt(OrDefault)
- Opt-out of lazy-loading for specific navigations
- Lazy-loading for no-tracking queries
- Reverse engineer Synapse and Dynamics 365 TDS
- Set MaxLength on TPH discriminator property by convention
- Translate ToString() on a string column
- Generic overload of ConventionSetBuilder.Remove
- Lookup tracked entities by primary key, alternate key, or foreign key
- Allow UseSequence and HiLo on non-key properties
- Pass query tracking behavior to materialization interceptor
- Use case-insensitive string key comparisons on SQL Server
- Allow value converters to change the DbType
- Resolve application services in EF services
- Numeric rowersion properties automatically convert to binary
- Allow transfer of ownership of DbConnection from application to DbContext
- Provide more information when 'No DbContext was found' error is generated
See GitHub for all issues resolved in preview 1.