Entity Framework Core is an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) and continues to be Microsoft's preferred library for getting your .NET applications to interact with a relational database.
Opinions on ORMs can vary from "ORMs are the Vietnam of Computer Science" to "If you waste time hand writing all your data access queries, you are stealing from your client".
Like any powerful tool, EF Core can help a great deal when used carefully, or cause chaos when thrown blindly at your codebase.

This talk will start with some core fundamentals - what you need to understand about how EF Core operates in order to use it safely and effectively. These fundamentals are mostly unchanged since the early releases of .Net Core but are always worth revisiting!
We'll then move on to cover what's new for recent versions and EF Core 7 In greater detail. By the end there will hopefully be something useful for every .NET Developer.

Standard 45 minutes session length aimed at .NET developers.

For as long as I've been speaking, (I think my first talk was in 2013), I've been delivering talks on Entity Framework. I think previous experience with other ORMs such as Java's Hibernate gave me a bit of a head-start on "how it all works" - which I've been working to maintain ever since!