Entity Framework Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. EF Core works with SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, SQLite, Azure Cosmos DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other databases through a provider plugin API.
Commonly Used Types:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbSet
Tentative categories were assigned with moderate confidence (0.5 to 0.75): they are shown, but they do not count toward a category’s momentum. How categories work
Install
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore
Adoption
All-time downloads
2.6B
Observeddownloads, all time
Popularity
Top 1% on NuGet
Derived99th percentile within NuGet
Dependents
—Not published by NuGet
Not published
Maintenance
0.91
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
20
211 versions over its life
Growth by period
Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of NuGet’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.
7 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
30 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
90 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
1 year
Collectinghistory
Collecting
Adoption history
Adoption historydownloads, all time
Observations in this range began OCT 5, 2026. The chart appears after 7 observations; 2 so far. Collecting history.
