Lazy Loading with EF Core

Using EF Core, references can be eager loaded, explicitly loaded, and lazy loaded. With eager loading you load references by … Continue reading Lazy Loading with EF Core

.NET Core, Entity Framework Core

Data Seeding with EF Core

One of the new EF Core 2.1 features is seeding of data. Contrary to the older version of Entity Framework, … Continue reading Data Seeding with EF Core

.NET Core, Azure, Entity Framework Core

First experiments using EF Core with Azure Cosmos DB

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) was designed to not being a framework for only relational databases. It just takes some time to get the first non-relational providers. Now is the time.
Microsoft now has the first preview for an EF Core provider for Cosmos DB. With this I have to do my first experiments using Cosmos DB from EF Core. Continue reading First experiments using EF Core with Azure Cosmos DB

.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Book, Entity Framework Core, Professional C#, Summary, Training, UWP

Highlights of November 2016

Time is running. In special I can see this how my children grow. November-2016 passed by, and it was a … Continue reading Highlights of November 2016

.NET Core, Entity Framework Core

Entity Framework Core – Unit Testing

For easier unit testing, Entity Framework Core offers a memory-based povider. You can use the same context you use with … Continue reading Entity Framework Core – Unit Testing

.NET Core, Entity Framework Core

Mapping to Getter-only Properties with EF Core

One of the new features of Entity Framework Core 1.1 is that it allows mapping to fields. This is extremely … Continue reading Mapping to Getter-only Properties with EF Core

.NET Core, CSharp, Entity Framework Core, Professional C#, Summary, Training, UWP

Highlights of October 2016

October was another great month. Probably the hottest news have been the announcements from Microsoft on Oct, 26th, but there … Continue reading Highlights of October 2016