I blogged previously about the courses on Entity Framework Core that are published on PacktPub. I am excited to offer a valuable coupon for the fist 10 people who claim it Just a reminder that this couple applies to the second course. Course Names: Mastering Entity Framework Core – Mapping, Querying and Manipulating Data Mastering …
In this post I will quickly describe how to create a simple API in ASP.NET Core that supports a set of CRUD operations on a database. Before we get started, make sure to download and install ASP.NET Core on your machine. You can find the installer here. Let’s get started. Start Visual Studio and create …
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As I mentioned before, I publish a book with PacktPub this year. It $5 as part of Skill Up campaign. Just click on the book image to learn more about it. Learn more about the $5 Skill Up campaign by clicking the image / link below. Packt has also created their very first Year …
As I mentioned before, I wrote a book with PacktPub on Code First Development with Entity Framework. PacktPub is having an eBook sale through January 8th. Every book is on sale for $5! This is a very good opportunity for developers to stock up on knowledge. Head on over to their web site and pick …
I created a short, 30 minutes video on how to get started with Entity Framework 7 Migrations inside ASP.NET v. next (ASP.NET 5). I decided that video would be much better than huge blog post with a ton of screenshots. II uploaded it to YouTube to my channel as a means to share my experiment. …
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I created a short, 25 minutes video on how to get started with Entity Framework 7 inside ASP.NET v. next (ASP.NET 5). I decided that video would be much better than huge blog post with a ton of screenshots. I based this decision on something I would want to watch. Looking out for number 1 …
ETW, or Event Tracing for Windows, is a technology from Microsoft that allows for extremely fast logging from a running application. Windows itself is using ETW, and technology has been part of Windows since Windows 2000. A developer can write code to start and stop tracing sessions, given that an application being traced has been …
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I have not been blogging much in the past 6 months. There are many reasons for this. Primary one is that I have been writing a book, accepting an offer from Packt publishing. The book is published now! It is available from both Packt and Amazon sites. Time to get some rest and catch up …
I had an interesting problem to study today. The business problem is quite simple. I want to allow users to enter a number of items on a screen that are recursively related. To illustrate here is what I have in mind Item 1 Item 1.1 Item 1.2 Item 1.2.1 Etc.. I do not want to …
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On occasion I maintain a project based on Entity Framework Database First approach. This project is using ObjectContext. I was recently working on a generic feature that was requiring me to find an entity based on primary key. In order to do this I have to dynamically create a where clause that filders data based …
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