Entity Framework Core

Entity Framework Core is an object-relational mapper for .NET, developed in the dotnet/efcore repository next to Microsoft.Data.Sqlite, an ADO.NET provider for SQLite. Applications add the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore package from NuGet together with the provider package for their database, as the install guide describes. The library needs a recent version of .NET at runtime. Database access goes through provider packages, and the providers list names providers from several sources.

Worth knowing

Not every provider is maintained by the EF Core project. A provider for a database that the core project does not ship, such as Firebird, MongoDB or Oracle, comes from its own maintainer.