Connect(); 2014 - .NET Core and EF7 Announcement

Name: Connect(); 2014 - .NET Core and EF7 Announcement
Start: 2014-11-12
Location: Redmond, Washington, USA

Microsoft officially announces the development of .NET Core (then called ASP.NET vNext) and a completely rewritten Entity Framework, initially dubbed 'EF7,' designed to be open-source and cross-platform.

Significance

This event marked the strategic pivot for Microsoft's developer tools, signaling a new era of open-source and cross-platform support for .NET, and the genesis of Entity Framework Core.

Key facts

Date: 2014-11-12
Type: release
Location: Redmond, Washington, USA