EF Core 8 overview and demo
summary
Demo shows EF Core 8 shipping concrete work not promises: primitive collections as JSON stored in a column and queried via openjson table expansion (requires SQL Server compatibility level 130), raw SQL can materialize unmapped types, DateOnly/TimeOnly get native mapping, EF Core 8 requires .NET 8 and is an LTS release, savechanges reduces round trips yielding roughly ~40% save changes improvement, and a new Woodstar driver preview plus built‑in Visual Studio tooling appear as slides and demos.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04What is EF Core
- 3:35EF Core lifecycle
- 7:59Primitive collections in EF8
- 15:59Querying primitive collections
- 18:12Database compatibility
- 23:15Query cache pollution fix
- 25:06Raw SQL for unmapped types
- 27:19LINQ with raw SQL
- 29:04DateOnly and TimeOnly
- 31:38EF7/8 performance
- 33:09SaveChanges round trips
- 38:04Woodstar driver
- 40:16VS tooling
- 41:21Next steps
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