Entity Framework Core Reviews & Product Details

Entity Framework Core is a phenomenal tool for .NET developers because it smoothly bridges the gap between object-oriented programming and relational databases through LINQ. It offers an intuitive, type-safe experience that can significantly speed up development, while still giving you the flexibility to manage complex migrations and support high-performance data operations across multiple platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As much as I love EF Core for the speed it gives me, it definitely has a few quirks that make me want to pull my hair out sometimes.

One of the biggest headaches is the "Magic SQL" problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.