There’s lots of good stuff coming in Entity Framework 8 Preview 1 which should drop within the next week or two …
- Enhancements to JSON column support
- Raw SQL queries for unmapped types
- Lazy-loading for no-tracking queries
- Explicit loading from untracked entities
- Opt-out of lazy-loading for specific navigations
- Lookup tracked entities by primary, alternate, or foreign key
- Discriminator columns have max length
- DateOnly/TimeOnly supported on SQL Server
Find out more 👇 …
What’s New in EF Core 8 | Microsoft Learn