You know EF Core. But the patterns you learned a few versions ago may be costing you performance and maintainability. The latest releases of EF Core give you better tools.

Through live demos in a working .NET application, you'll see how modern EF Core simplifies auditing and soft deletes, speeds up bulk operations and queries, makes JSON data a first-class citizen, catches conflicting migrations from parallel branches, and supports clean domain-driven design across multiple bounded contexts.

You will learn:

- How to handle auditing, soft deletes, and multi-tenancy without cluttering your business logic.
- Where modern EF Core features improve query and bulk operation performance.
- How to keep migrations and bounded contexts manageable as your team and domain grow.

Target audience: Intermediate to advanced .NET developers who already use EF Core and want to modernize existing applications and learn about features released in the last few cycles.

Previous deliveries: Earlier versions of this talk were presented at SQL Saturday Minnesota (2025), SQL Saturday St. Louis (2025), and Nebraska.Code() (July 2026). This version is updated for EF Core 11 and adds features from recent EF Core releases that many developers haven't adopted yet.