Awesome Entity Framework 6

Entity Framework is an open-source ORM framework for .NET applications. It is the official data access platform for Microsoft.

A curated list of awesome entity framework 6 libraries, packages, and documentation.

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Contents

• Awesome Entity Framework 6
  • Documentation and Learning
  • Supported Packages
  • Unsupported Packages
  • Providers

Documentation and Learning

• Entity Framework Docs - Official documentation for Entity Framework by Microsoft.
• Entity Framework Tutorial
• Entityframeworktutorial.net - Learn Entity Framework using simple yet practical examples on EntityFrameworkTutorial.net for free
• RIP Tutorial - Archived Stack Overflow Documentation (Multi-Language)
• Knowledge base - Translated posts from Stack Overflow
• Google - Up-and-coming search engine ;)
• Books
  • Programming Entity Framework, 2nd Edition - Julia Lerman must have book
  • Programming Entity Framework: Code First - Focus on the code first part of EF
• Videos
  • Pluralsight - Online class to get started with EF 6
  • Microsoft Virtual Academy - Online class from MVA on how to use EF with MVC

Supported Packages

• EntityFramework-Classic - Entity Framework Classic is a supported version from the latest EF6 code base. It supports .NET Framework and .NET Core and overcomes some EF limitations by adding tons of must-haves built-in features.
• EntityFramework-Extensions - Improve Entity Framework performance with Bulk SaveChanges and Bulk Operations.
• EntityFramework-Plus - Improve Entity Framework performance and overcome limitations with MUST-HAVE features.
• EntityFramework-Effort - An Effort is a powerful tool that enables a convenient way to create automated tests for Entity Framework based applications.
• EntityFramework.DynamicFilters - Create global and scoped filters for Entity Framework queries. The filters are automatically applied to every query and can be used to support use cases such as Multi-Tenancy, Soft Deletes, Active/Inactive, etc.
• GraphDiff - DbContext extension methods for Entity Framework Code First, that allows you to save an entire detached Model/Entity, with child Entities and Lists, to the database without writing the code to do it.
• Audit.EntityFramework - Audit.EntityFramework provides the infrastructure to log interactions with the EF DbContext.
• EntityFramework.Testing - EntityFramework.Testing provides an implementation of DbAsyncQueryProvider that can be used when testing a component that uses async queries with EntityFramework.
• EntityFramework.Utilities - Provides extensions for EntityFramework that doesn't exist out of the box like delete and update by query and bulk inserts.
• EntityFramework-Reverse-POCO-Code-First-Generator - EntityFramework Reverse POCO Code First Generator - Beautifully generated code-first code that is fully customizable.
• EFCache - EntityFramework.Cache provides a second level cache for Entity Framework 6.1 and newer.
• LINQKit - LINQKit is a free set of extensions for LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework power users.
• AutoMapper.EF6 - Extensions for AutoMapper and EF6.
• EntityFramework.Triggers - Adds events for entity inserting, inserted, updating, updated, deleting, and deleted.
• EntityFrameworkExtras - EntityFrameworkExtras provides some useful additions to EntityFramework such as executing Stored Procedures with User-Defined Table Types and Output Parameters.
• EntityFramework.Functions - EntityFramework.Functions library implements Entity Framework code first support for stored procedures, TVFs and SVFs, etc.
• EntityFramework.BulkInsert - The purpose of this library is for performing Bulk Inserts using EntityFramework 6 and your existing DbContext instance to perform faster inserts instead of generating multiple insert statements for a collection of strongly typed objects.
• EntityFramework.Toolkit - EntityFramework.Toolkit is a library which provides implementations for EntityFramework best practices, patterns, utilities, and extensions.
• EFDesigner - Entity Framework visual design surface and code-first code generation for EF6, Core and beyond.
• CodeFirstFunctions - Store Functions for EntityFramework CodeFirst.
• EntityFramework Profiler - Entity Framework Profiler is a real-time visual debugger allowing a development team to gain valuable insight and perspective into their usage of Entity Framework.
• MassTransit.EntityFramework - MassTransit Entity Framework support; MassTransit is a message-based distributed application framework for .NET http://masstransit-project.com/
• SQLiteCodeFirst - Creates an SQLite Database based on an EdmModel by using Entity Framework CodeFirst.
• IdentityServer4.EntityFramework - EntityFramework persistence layer for IdentityServer4
• PommaLabs.KVLite.EntityFramework - KVLite is a partition-based key-value cache built for SQL RDBMSs. This package contains an Entity Framework query cache provider.
• Stove.EntityFramework - Domain Driven Design oriented application framework, meets CRUD needs.
• EntityFrameworkMock - Easy Mock wrapper for mocking EF6 DbContext and DbSet using Moq or NSubstitute.
• EntityFramework.PrimaryKey - Retrieve the primary key (including composite keys) from any entity.
• DelegateDecompiler.EntityFramework - A library which is able to decompile a delegate or a method body to its lambda representation.

Unsupported Packages

• EntityFramework.Extended - Add-on feature for Entity Framework.
• EntityFramework.Filters - Filters implementation for Entity Framework.
• EntityFramework.CommonTools - Extensions, Auditing, Concurrency Checks, JSON properties and Transaction Logs for EntityFramework and EFCore.
• AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.Multitenant - Multi-tenant support for ASP.NET Identity using Entity Framework.
• AuditDbContext - AuditDbContext provides entity change auditing for Entity Framework POCO entities.
• EFAuditing - EFAuditing is a library that implements Auditing for Entity Framework Core based DbContexts. It is extensible to allow other logging providers like MongoDB, Azure tables, etc.
• EntityFramework.Utilities - Provides extensions for EntityFramework that doesn't exist out of the box like delete and update by query and bulk inserts.
• TrackerEnabledDbContext - Tracker-enabled DbContext offers you to implement full auditing in your database.
• Speedy.EntityFramework - Speedy is a simple easy to use Entity Framework unit testing framework.
• EFBulkInsert - Provides an extension method over the Entity Framework DbContext for bulk insertion of entities.

Providers

• EntityFramework.SqlServerCompact - Allows SQL Server Compact 4.0 to be used with Entity Framework.
• System.Data.SQLite.EF6 - Support for Entity Framework 6 using System.Data.SQLite.
• MySql.Data.EntityFramework - Connector/Net is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver for MySQL.
• Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.EntityFramework - Official Oracle ODP.NET, Managed Entity Framework Driver.
• Npgsql.EF6 - Npgsql is a .NET data provider for PostgreSQL. It is implemented in C#. Works with Postgresql 7.x and above.
• Firebird Entity Framework Provider - The .NET Data provider is written in C# and provides a high-performance, native implementation of the Firebird API.
• Devart - Devart dotConnect is a commercial third-party provider. Entity Framework support is only available in paid versions of dotConnect.
• VFPEntityFrameworkProvider2 - Entity Framework 6 Provider for VFP data.