Microsoft shipped the seventh preview of Entity Framework Core 5.0, boosting its data access technology with a factory to create DbContext instances and more.

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.

Create a new DbContext in Entity Framework Core To create a custom Context class, you should extend the DbContext base class in Entity Framework Core as shown below.

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