title: Always Encrypted in Entity Framework Core Support
body: <p>As of EF Core 2.1, Always Encrypted SQL Server feature is not yet supported.</p>
  
  <p>I am using both SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL and all clients are Windows-based.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Can we use ADO.NET to achieve this while waiting for the feature to be implemented? </li>
  <li>Is there any third party NuGet or paid component that does so?</li>
  <li>Any other suggestion of how to encrypt few columns in a database with .NET Core 2.1 without rolling my own algorithm while we wait for the EF team to implement it?</li>
  </ul>