.NET Data Community Standup - A tour of what's new in EF8

Arthur and Shay from the EF team are joined by members of the community to demo some of the key new features available now in Entity Framework Core 8. For example:

Primitive collections
Complex types
HierarchyId in .NET and EF Core
Raw SQL queries for unmapped types
Lazy-loading enhancements
Lookup tracked entities by PK/AK/FK
DateOnly/TimeOnly supported on SQL Server
Sentinel values and database defaults

00:00 Countdown begins 02:39 Welcome 03:25 State of the Unicorn 06:16 Team Intros 10:15 Complex types and value objects 18:26 Demo 23:50 Demo paused 27:01 Demo continues 30:30 DateOnly and TimeOnly 38:54 Hierachy ID 43:40 Q&A and Discussion 56:38 Primitive collections and many to many mapping 01:07:29 Q&A 01:14:50 Wrap Release post: https://aka.ms/ef8 Daily builds: https://aka.ms/ef-daily-builds Runnable Samples: https://aka.ms/ef8-new .NET Conf Session: https://aka.ms/ef9-dotnetconf Featuring: Arthur Vickers, Shay Rojansky, Jeremy Likness (@jeremylikness), Erik (@ErikEJ), Julie Lerman (@julielerman), Diego Vega (@divega) #EFCore #EntityFramework #Data