What's new in Entity Framework support in LLBLGen Pro v5.4

This section describes all changes, new additions, breaking changes and fixes made to the Entity Framework support.

As v5.4.0 is released prior to Entity Framework Core 2.1, the new features coming with EF Core 2.1 will be added as soon as EF Core 2.1 is RTM.

What's new in Entity Framework support in LLBLGen Pro v5.3

The following new features / changes have been made to the support for Entity Framework / Entity Framework Core.

The generated POCO classes for CodeFirst / DbContext as well as for EF Core 1 and 2 now have a partial method OnCreated() which is called at the end of the ctor. This can e.g. be used for custom types for navigators to be created automatically, e.g. when a specific sorted list is needed for a specific navigator.

The following new features / changes have been made to the support for Entity Framework Core

Entity Framework Core v2.0 support. EF Core 2.0 is supported on .NET 4.6.1 or higher and .NET Standard 2.0. Please see the Entity Framework Core 2.0 specific documentation about what's supported in this release on EF Core 2.0 and how it's used.
.NET Standard 2.0 support (for EF Core 2.0).
Entity Framework Core 1.0 is now marked 'legacy' in the designer. New projects should use Entity Framework Core v2.0.

The following new features / changes have been made to the support for Entity Framework Core

Netstandard 1.6 support. When selected as target platform, the designer will generate a csproj file in the Visual Studio 2017 format, targeting Netstandard 1.6.
Setting to generate a field as a readonly property and a setting to generate readonly fields as readonly properties. Both use the Entity Framework Core 1.1.x feature of backing fields instead of auto-properties.
Support for Read-only entities
Setting to select the CollectionType for a navigator which returns a set. It's now possible to specify as type IEnumerable<T> and ICollection<T> instead of the default List<T>.
Setting the CollectionType for a navigator to ICollection<T> and List<T> will now produce code in the constructor of the entity to set the navigator to an instance of HashSet<T> and List<T> respectively. If you select IEnumerable<T> as navigator return type, you have to instantiate the navigator manually.

Entity Framework Core v1.x support. Entity Framework Core v1.x is now fully supported.

No additions have been made for Entity Framework support in v5.0.

Entity Framework 6: Code First support. Code first is now fully supported for Entity Framework v6.
Entity Framework 6: Unintended Code First triggering interception support added For normal DbContext usage the OnModelCreating method is also overriden in DbContext, and will throw an exception, as it will only be invoked if the user has specified the connection string wrong, which will cause EF to go into CodeFirst mode.

Entity Framework 6 support. Entity Framework v6 is now fully supported.
New settings for Spatial types and StoreGeneratedPattern control. These settings are available on Entity Framework v5 and up.