New features in the Entity Framework support!

Devart · Post by **Devart** » Thu 28 Mar 2019 18:39

Dear users,

We are glad to announce the new features that are available in the Entity Framework support in the latest version:

Entity Framework Core 2.2.3 is supported
The .HasComputedColumnSql functionality for the AddColumn and AlterColumn operations in EF Core Code-First Migrations is supported (Oracle)
The SQL translation of the following method overloads, that accept the StringComparison argument and return bool, in the System.String class is supported in EF Core 2: Contains, StartsWith, EndsWith, Equals (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DB2)
The bug with generating the COALESCE expression in EF Core is fixed (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DB2)
The bug with calling DbExecutionStrategy.ShouldRetryOn(Exception), when the first connection fails to open, is fixed (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2)
The bug with removing an empty __EFMigrationsHistory table by EnsureDeleted() in EF Core 2 for PostgreSQL 9.0 and higher is fixed (PostgreSQL)
The bug with inserting and updating string data, when config.QueryOptions.NullStringCollation is initialized, is fixed (MySQL)
The bug with using the TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE column type in EF Core 2.2 mapping is fixed (Oracle)
The translation of DateTimeOffset literal into SQL statement is supported (PostgreSQL)