Provide a more complete guide to porting from EF6

[ajcvickers]

Moving from EF6 to EF Core must be considered a porting exercise, rather than a version upgrade, since they are different code bases with different functionality. We should provide more details on this porting and common things that people hit. See dotnet/efcore#14130

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• Content: Porting from EF6 to EF Core - Porting a Code-Based Model
• Content Source: entity-framework/efcore-and-ef6/porting/port-code.md
• Product: entity-framework
• GitHub Login: @rowanmiller
• Microsoft Alias: divega

[m17kea]

@ajcvickers, @maumar, @smitpatel, guys as you've been so helpful with my migration to ef core I'd be happy to contribute here and write some documentation. I'll write up all of the migration steps I have been through, as soon as I'm finished with the migration itself.

[MrJinx]

Just came across this post while looking to implement Alternate Keys in an existing EF 6 application. I haven't been able to find much information on moving from EF 6 to EF Core though. I'd like to be on the latest version of EF, however, I'm concerned with how porting to EF Core will impact our existing application, model and data. Any helpful insight would be greatly appreciated by anyone who has ported an existing application. Thanks!

[ErikEJ]

@MrJinx Useful info in the video: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/On-NET/Migrating-from-Entity-Framework-6-to-Core

[MrJinx]

Thanks Erik! I'll definitely check it out.