The future of Entity Framework (EF7)

There’s a ton of small bug fixes in this release, quite a few enhancements and a few larger new features. Configuration performance went up quite a bit, and I’ve laid the groundwork to make in-memory mapping a lot faster in the future. LINQ projection has gotten to the point where you can do anything that the major query providers support.

Unit Testing with FakeDBSet and NBuilder

The Fastest Way To Mock a Database for Unit Testing

Create test data with NBuilder and Faker

Microsoft has shifted .NET's focus from Windows to " the cloud" (code for Azure). If you don't care about Azure then there's nothing really exciting in all these changes.