
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5
Today we are announcing the fifth preview release of EF Core 5.0.
The fifth previews of .NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 5.0 are also available now.
Prerequisites
The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means:
EF Core 5.0 runs on .NET Core 3.1; it does not require .NET 5.
This may change in future previews depending on how the plan for .NET 5 evolves
EF Core 5.0 runs on other platforms that support .NET Standard 2.1.
EF Core 5.0 will not run on .NET Standard 2.0 platforms, including .NET Framework.
How to get EF Core 5.0 previews
EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages.
For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can use the following command using the dotnet tool:
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer --version 5.0.0-preview.5.20278.2
The EF Core packages published today are:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore – The main EF Core package
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer – Database provider for Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Azure
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite – Database provider for SQLite
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Cosmos – Database provider for Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.InMemory – The in-memory database provider