Entity Framework Core 2.2 and beyond: what's cooking?

The Discussion

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  Thank you for a great video. :-)

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  Awesome work on EF, totally love it!

  Is there any progress to support the Graph option of CosmosDb and query the data  using Linq instead of the Gremlin API?

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  Thank you for the Demo.

  Any EF visual tool in the Roadmap?

  There are lot of existing data bases that has to be mapped.

   

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  Great work on EF core!

  Do you have plans to support graph Databases?

  Thank you.

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  What is the update/latest situation with Oracle EF Core Provider?

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  very great Video, very informing 

   

  and both are great hosts!!!

   

  lg andi

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  @WinInsider:

  Currently the ADO.NET provider from Oracle is in Beta 3 (). I would expect announcements on RTM dates and an EF Core provider preview availability soon. The easiest way to get news on this is to follow @OracleDOTNET on Twitter. 

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  @Cuppy & @verbe: We don't have any concrete plans with graph databases. There is however an issue at https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore/issues/8527 that is about having first-class support for some of the graph capabilities of SQL Server. 

  As far as I understand, Cosmos DB's Gremlin API is not something you can use to target a database you created with SQL API, so it would require an entirely different provider. We focused on SQL API because document oriented databases seem to be a better fit for the scenarios in which EF Core is currently used. 

  If you have ideas that you would like to share, including specific graph databases with which you you think you could get some value out of being able to access them through EF Core APIs with them, feel free to start a discussion at https://github.com/aspnet/entityframeworkcore/issues/new.

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  @aayadi: Visual tooling for EF Core is not something we are planning on working, at least in the short term. There is EF Core Power Tools, a free tool created and maintained by  Erik Ejlskov Jensen which seems to be filling this gap pretty well. 

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  Without visual tooling, should EF core be a part of Visual Studio?