Automatic Migrations is one of the new features in Entity Framework 4.3, released on Feb. 9, 2012, with an update (EF 4.3.1) released on March 22, 2012. Since this article deals with Code First ...

You’re responsible for controlling your context initialization which can help you do things like seed fixed business data. You’re also responsible for creating code first migrations.

Entity Framework Core offers methods to retrieve entities from the data store, to add, change, or delete entities, and to traverse entity graphs.