In our last article we looked at System.Data in .NET Core 3.0. Now we turn our attention to System.Data.SqlClient, which is the SQL Server driver.

She also announced two new features for SQL Server working on both .NET Framework and .NET Core: Data Classification -- Available in Azure SQL Database and Microsoft SQL Server 2019 since CTP 2.0. UTF ...

We won’t be using any of those features here. Click Create. We’ll use this ASP.NET Core Web API project to work with the code examples given in the sections below.

Figure 2. ASP.NET Core Identity UI 3.0 NuGet Install Next I update the ASP.NET Core Entity Framework Identity UI NuGet package to version 3.0 as seen in Figure 3. [Click on image for larger view.] ...

SQL Server 2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal release offering robust tools for developers and improved core database capabilities.

Windows hosting services can host your websites and apps on dedicated Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET or .NET. In fact, they can even run different products like Exchange or Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft breaks vow to never license by core and will now charge for server cores much like they were processors. Here's the details.