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Rahul T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"EF Core Best ORM in .NET"
The best thing about it is that you can directly define and manage database schema through your C# code, thus making development faster and less p...
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Sanjay Kumar C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One of the best concept for developer which help and save time resource both."
It automatically create database from model and also create model from database.
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4.0 out of 5
"Best ORM for.net development"
Best ORM for development and easy to integrate with your data access layer with easily sync with your database changes from code to db and db to code.
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Rahul T.
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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

The best thing about it is that you can directly define and manage database schema through your C# code, thus making development faster and less prone to human errors.

And 2nd thing you can easily integrate it with any database, even without any prior knowledge of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

The only thing I dislike about it is while working in a big team we sometimes face conflict errors which are a bit hard to track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making it easy to write database schema and decreasing human error.

We can also change our database at any point in time without making large changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nishedh J.
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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

One of the best ORM for .Net as supports cross platform, supports code first, migrations, LINQ, can call direct stored procedure, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

May have issue with learning, at first it may take a bit time to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

can integrate with .Net core, ORM, LINQ, can call stored procedure, abstraction etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Niraj O.
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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

Best ORM for development and easy to integrate with your data access layer with easily sync with your database changes from code to db and db to code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

It should be compatible with more db types Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code with db queries and code first approach with easily sync with db and we can manage migration to up to date db and also part of code due to code first approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anuj G.
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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

The way Entity Framework Core allows us to create applications and connect to the Database using the code first approach. It's easy to create the classes and then create the Database tables using those classes and the connectivity and data transfer is seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

Nothing in particular. Everything works very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

EF Core allows us to work with data on a higher level of abstraction by using objects of domain-specific classes. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that we need to write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

Learning curve for EF Core is very less since it is a successor of legacy Entity Framework. It is much faster, secure and easy to use .NET Core ORM that works with SQL Server, MySQL & PostgreSQL databases. It's huge community adoption has proved that it is reliable and performant on production application as well. Since it is backed by Microsoft, there are no further questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

Honestly, there is no point to dislike this framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

Entity Framework Core helps us in writing the datalayer while building an application. We can use either Database First or Code First approach with EF Core. With EF Core, we can build apps in .NET Core that can run on Linux, saving us a lot of money on Windows licencing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kashif F.
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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

support mutlipe databases and large set of APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

difficult to handle Migration in many clients for single codebase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

Create, and manage databases

Seeding Initial Data, Object Mapping Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

Entity Framework core allows you to either create database access that is code first or database first. It is very easy to set up if you want to go database first or if you put in the work to set up classes and entities it is very nice to have your database created and migrations managed by ef core.

It is very simple to integrate into a dotnet core app with an existing DB if you want an easier to write database queries with the power of Linq. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

Not a lot of downsides, sometimes queries will not be optimised out of the box. Sometimes you will get conflict errors with updates or inserts when you don't know how ef core tracks entities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it to manage database access in dotnet core apps, but primarily it's to allow easy writing of complex queries for updates, inserts, and even as simple as gets. As long as it can be translated to sql it makes it very easy to use. It also makes understanding table relationships very easy for developers when writing queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shivam S.
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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

Entity Framework's Code-First approach stands out as a remarkable feature. It empowers developers to define and manage the database schema directly within their C# code, simplifying the development process and fostering a more intuitive workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

Azure DevOps pipeline lacks full support for database migrations. It would be highly beneficial to have a tool within the DevOps Pipeline that can apply migrations when necessary, all configured through YAML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

It acts as an open-source ally, streamlining database connectivity and querying processes, thus alleviating the necessity of crafting extensive, often repetitive, code structures that could span over a hundred lines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SRIRAM M.
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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

It gives me a good advantage in handling multi-threading and multi-connections from the same application. It also helps me maintain the loosely coupled code from an application standpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

Some of the errors while executing queries may be difficult to debug. The error description will be so generic, and I feel like the error description can be improved. More details documents can be provided for the initial setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

The conventional way of connection gives me a hard time while coding or developing a large-scale application. Despite any type of database, we can write our structure with the entity framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Entity Framework Core?

Working with Entity Framework for more than five years, found it one of the easiest tools to help implement .net applications with SQL servers.

Also, It's very easy to add a new DB layer By changing the Entity framework provider from SQL server to Oracle.

With a few lines of code.

Entity Framework works very nicely with Code first.

Excellent documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Entity Framework Core?

The DB migration is not fully supported by the Azure DevOps pipeline; It would be very nice if we had a tool in the DevOps Pipeline to apply the migration if needed in the Yaml. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Entity Framework Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

Entity Framework solve many issues by saving time to avoid writing maybe 100 lines of code to be a few lines.

To make the DB connection or query a Database.

Open source project.

Always get security patches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.