The first release candidate for Entity Framework 5 -- Microsoft's object-database mapper for .NET -- has shipped with a go live license, ready for production.

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, open source and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology. The company is working toward a unified offering ...

Going forward, ASP.NET 5 will be known as ASP.NET Core 1.0, and .NET Core 5 will be renamed to .NET Core 1.0. Entity Framework 7 also is being rebranded as Entity Framework Core 1.0.

If you’re using a code first approach to developing with Entity Framework, it’s even more likely you’ll make a mistake with decimal precision.