Entity Framework Core allows you to store and retrieve data to and from an in-memory database. It’s a quick and easy way to test your ASP.NET Core 6 web applications.

Take advantage of the Code First approach in Entity Framework Core to create the data model for your application based on its domain entities in ASP.NET Core.

Running code first projects in .NET Core is easier but still requires additional steps, like registering DbProviderFactories programmatically, and either passing the connection string explicitly, or ...

Our first .NET Core 3.0 feature is the ability to pass a column name to the DbDataReader.GetXXX methods. A long-time complaint about this interface is you cannot refence columns by name.

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.