The people from InfoQ released a free (mini)book about .NET Core. In this book, five authors talk about the current state of .NET Core 3.0 from multiple perspectives. Each author brings their experience and ideas on how different .NET Core 3.0 features are relevant to the .NET ecosystem, both present and future. 

.NET Tools are great, and we've known them for a while in .NET Core as ".NET Core Global Tools", but often we don't want these tools not to be shared globally across our machine. This is where "Local Tools" come in handy, introduced in .NET Core SDK 3.0. 

.NET Core 3.0 is representing a major step for the .NET community. It is interesting to analyze what’s new in the API directly from the compiled bits. In this post I will first explain how to diff .NET Core 3.0 against .NET Core 2.2 with NDepend, and then how to browse diff results. 

    public class Tags
    {
        public Tags()
        {
            BlogPostsJoinTags = new HashSet<BlogPostsJoinTags>();
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<BlogPostsJoinTags> BlogPostsJoinTags { get; set; }
    }

    public class BlogPostsJoinTags
    {
        public virtual BlogPosts BlogPost { get; set; }
        public int BlogPostId { get; set; }

        public virtual Tags Tag { get; set; }
        public int TagId { get; set; }
    }

    public class BlogPosts
    {
        public BlogPosts()
        {
            BlogPostsJoinTags = new HashSet<BlogPostsJoinTags>();
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Body { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<BlogPostsJoinTags> BlogPostsJoinTags { get; set; }
    }

    public class MyDBDataContext : DbContext
    {
        protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
        {
            optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(@"Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=testdb2;Integrated Security = true");
        }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Entity<BlogPosts>(entity =>
            {
                entity.Property(e => e.Title)
                    .IsRequired()
                    .HasMaxLength(450);
            });

            modelBuilder.Entity<Tags>(entity =>
            {
                entity.Property(e => e.Name)
                    .IsRequired()
                    .HasMaxLength(450);
            });

            modelBuilder.Entity<BlogPostsJoinTags>(entity =>
            {
                entity.HasKey(e => new { e.TagId, e.BlogPostId })
                    .HasName("PK_dbo.BlogPostsJoinTags");

                entity.HasIndex(e => e.BlogPostId)
                    .HasName("IX_BlogPostId");

                entity.HasIndex(e => e.TagId)
                    .HasName("IX_TagId");

                entity.HasOne(d => d.BlogPost)
                    .WithMany(p => p.BlogPostsJoinTags)
                    .HasForeignKey(d => d.BlogPostId)
                    .HasConstraintName("FK_dbo.BlogPostsJoinTags_dbo.BlogPosts_BlogPostId");

                entity.HasOne(d => d.Tag)
                    .WithMany(p => p.BlogPostsJoinTags)
                    .HasForeignKey(d => d.TagId)
                    .HasConstraintName("FK_dbo.BlogPostsJoinTags_dbo.Tags_TagId");
            });
        }

        public virtual DbSet<BlogPosts> BlogPosts { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<BlogPostsJoinTags> BlogPostsJoinTags { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<Tags> Tags { get; set; }
    }

    public class Tags
    {
        public Tags()
        {
            BlogPostsJoinTags = new HashSet<BlogPostsJoinTags>();
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [MaxLength(450)]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [InverseProperty("Tag")]
        public virtual ICollection<BlogPostsJoinTags> BlogPostsJoinTags { get; set; }
    }

    public class BlogPostsJoinTags
    {
        [ForeignKey("BlogPostId")]
        [InverseProperty("BlogPostsJoinTags")]
        public virtual BlogPosts BlogPost { get; set; }
        public int BlogPostId { get; set; }

        [ForeignKey("TagId")]
        [InverseProperty("BlogPostsJoinTags")]
        public virtual Tags Tag { get; set; }
        public int TagId { get; set; }
    }

    public class BlogPosts
    {
        public BlogPosts()
        {
            BlogPostsJoinTags = new HashSet<BlogPostsJoinTags>();
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [MaxLength(450)]
        public string Title { get; set; }

        public string Body { get; set; }

        [InverseProperty("BlogPost")]
        public virtual ICollection<BlogPostsJoinTags> BlogPostsJoinTags { get; set; }
    }

    public class MyDBDataContext : DbContext
    {
        protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
        {
            optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(@"Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=testdb2;Integrated Security = true");
        }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Entity<BlogPostsJoinTags>(entity =>
            {
                entity.HasKey(e => new { e.TagId, e.BlogPostId })
                    .HasName("PK_dbo.BlogPostsJoinTags");

                entity.HasIndex(e => e.BlogPostId)
                    .HasName("IX_BlogPostId");

                entity.HasIndex(e => e.TagId)
                    .HasName("IX_TagId");
            });
        }

        public virtual DbSet<BlogPosts> BlogPosts { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<BlogPostsJoinTags> BlogPostsJoinTags { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<Tags> Tags { get; set; }
    }

 var post = new BlogPosts { ... };
context.BlogPosts.Add(post);

var tag = new Tags { ... };
context.Tags.Add(tag);

var postTag = new BlogPostsJoinTags { Tag = tag, BlogPost = post };
context.PostsTags.Add(postTag);

context.SaveChanges();

            BlogPosts post1 = this.BlogPosts
                  .Include(blogPosts => blogPosts.BlogPostsJoinTags)
                    .ThenInclude(joinTags => joinTags.Tag)
                  .First(blogPosts => blogPosts.Id == 1);
            IEnumerable<Tags> post1Tags = post1.BlogPostsJoinTags.Select(x => x.Tag);

Q: What's the near-term roadmap for .NET tooling?

A: While tentative, here are some short term plans:

• Sep 2016 – Preview 3 of VS 2015 with early .CSProj support for .NET Core
• Nov 2016 – .NET Core 1.2, ASP.NET Core 1.2, Entity Framework Core 1.2, SignalR, .NET Standard 2.0, etc.  

The first preview of Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 8 is available on NuGet today!

Basic information

EF Core 8, or just EF8, is the successor to EF Core 7, and is scheduled for release in November 2023, at the same time as .NET 8.

EF8 currently targets .NET 6. This will likely be updated to .NET 8 as we near release.

EF8 will align with .NET 8 as a long-term support (LTS) release. See the .NET support policy for more information. 

This article is about creating ASP.NET Core applications, using Visual Studio Code and .NET Core. After this article, you will be able to create applications, using Visual Studio Code in .NET Core