In EF7, SaveChanges performance has been significantly improved, with a special focus on removing unneeded network roundtrips to your database. In some scenarios, we’re seeing a 74% reduction in time taken – that’s a four-fold improvement!
Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:
- Request decompression middleware
- Output caching middleware
- Updates to rate limiting middleware
- Kestrel support for WebSockets over HTTP/2
- Kestrel performance improvements on high core machines
- Support for logging additional request headers in W3CLogger
- Empty Blazor project templates
- System.Security.Cryptography support on WebAssembly
- Blazor custom elements no longer experimental
- Experimental
QuickGridcomponent for Blazor - gRPC JSON transcoding multi-segment parameters
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MapGroupsupport for more extension methods
Entity Framework 7 (EF7) Preview 5 has shipped with support for Table-per-Concrete type (TPC) mapping. This blog post will focus on TPC. There are several other enhancements included in Preview 5, such as:
- Support for AT TIME ZONE in SQL Server
- Updates to command and connection interception (#23087, #23085, #17261)
- Addition of the delete behavior attribute
Read the full list of EF7 Preview 5 enhancements.
Today we released .NET 7 Preview 5. This preview of .NET 7 includes improvements to Generic Math which make the lives of API authors easier, a new Text Classification API for ML.NET that adds state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for natural language processing, various improvements to source code generators and a new Roslyn analyzer and fixer for RegexGenerator and multiple performance improvements in the areas of CodeGen, Observability, JSON serialization / deserialization and working with streams.
