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It's a continuation of blog series about EF Core 6 features. Link to Part 1. 1. HasConversion Supports Value Converters In EF Core, the generic overloads of the HasConversion methods used the generic parameter to specify the type to convert to. In EF...
1. Unicode Attribute A new Unicode attribute in EF Core 6.0 allows you to map a string property to a non-Unicode column without specifying the database type directly. The Unicode attribute is ignored when the database system supports only Unicode typ...
In this post, I focus on LINQ query enhancements in Entity Framework Core 6. Better Support for GroupBy Queries EF Core 6.0 has better support for GroupBy queries. Translates GroupBy followed by FirstOrDefault over a group Expands navigations after ...
Ignore Circular References In .NET 5, you can preserve references for circular references using System.Text.Json. But you couldn't ignore them. The JsonException is thrown if circular references have been detected. In .NET 6, you can ignore them. Ca...
Constant Interpolated Strings C# 10 allows initializing const strings using string interpolation, but the placeholder must also be a const string. The placeholder can't be another type, like numeric or date values, because they are sensitive to Cultu...
The Default Value for *OrDefault Methods The Enumerable.FirstOrDefault method returns the first element of a sequence, or a default value if no element is found. In .NET 6, you can override the default value. You can override the default value also f...
