Click the Azure IoT Button – Part 1

Microsoft Azure offers great features for IoT devices. A simple device is the Azure IoT button. This button is – … Continue reading Click the Azure IoT Button – Part 1

.NET Core, ASP.NET Core

Choosing the right ASP.NET Core technology

.NET Core 3.0 doesn’t make it easier to choose the correct Web technology creating .NET applications. Some more options have … Continue reading Choosing the right ASP.NET Core technology

.NET Core, Architecture

Hosting DI Container with .NET Core 3.0

ASP.NET Core included the WebHost class that was used in the Main method to startup everything up – including the … Continue reading Hosting DI Container with .NET Core 3.0

.NET Core, Entity Framework Core

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

Writing ILogger Diagnostics to a File

With .NET Core, diagnostic information can be written using the ILogger interface. ILogger offers provider-based functionality to write to the … Continue reading Writing ILogger Diagnostics to a File

.NET Core, Summary

Dependency Injection code samples updated

With my blog I’ve several articles about dependency injection using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection. Now I’ve updated the source code of my older … Continue reading Dependency Injection code samples updated

.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, Architecture, UWP, WPF, Xamarin, XAML

Disposing Injected Services (or: Using Dependency Injection Scopes)

The DI container Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection disposes registered services automatically. It’s just the question when the dispose takes place. Automatic dispose of transient and scoped services happen at the end of a scope. With ASP.NET Core applications, scopes are created with every HTTP request – after the request, services are disposed. This article shows creating and using DI scopes with XAML-based applications. Continue reading Disposing Injected Services (or: Using Dependency Injection Scopes)

.NET Core

.NET Core Current and Long Term Support Levels

.NET Core gives two support options: Long Term Support (LTS) and Current. .NET Core adapted behaviors similar with other open … Continue reading .NET Core Current and Long Term Support Levels