Add even more 3rd party tools

[ErikEJ]

dotnet/efcore#3797 (comment)

dotnet/efcore#2341 (comment)

dotnet/efcore#795 (comment)

[gnaeus]

Hello! I created an extension EntityFramework.CommonTools

https://www.nuget.org/packages/EntityFrameworkCore.CommonTools

It provides three main features:

• Expansion of IQueryable extension methods inside lambda expressions (example)
• Application-level transaction logs (example)
• Utility for storing complex types in JSON columns (example)

And I want to add some info about this extension to the EFCore docs.

[divega]

For this too (like providers), I am thinking about having a single page listing all tools in a table rather than separate pages referenced in the index. It may make sense to do some house cleaning if some of the tools are not being maintained or useful.

[ErikEJ]

Good idea - any starting point/template for the table?

[divega]

@ErikEJ sorry for the long delay answering. I think having a table that normalizes the information on the existing extension pages would be a good starting point. It would be good to include a column for compatibility and a description.

[ErikEJ]

Do you have an exsisting page I can use a inspiration/template?

[divega]

@ErikEJ you may now want to check the new provider list. The PR was #632.

• This should be similar, although the columns may be different.
• There is the need to redirect stuff to the index.md containing the table.
• Tables in markdown are better than html but still hard to manage. You may want to use some editor add in that automates markdown tables fixup. You may also want to use two monitors 😄