.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Professional C#

Temporal Tables with EF Core 6

Temporal tables keep changes of updates and deletes with specific tables. This is a feature of SQL Server since SQL Server 2016. Without using this feature from SQL Server, with EF Core often the behavior when saving objects was overridden to keep the data in the database. With updates from EF Core 6 and using SQL Server (including SQL Azure), just a few lines of code are required to enable temporal tables and use this feature as shown with this article. Continue reading Temporal Tables with EF Core 6

.NET Core, Azure

Azure Functions with Dependency Injection

Azure Functions got some improvements in the last months. Now it’s no longer necessary to create static methods, instance methods … Continue reading Azure Functions with Dependency Injection

Azure, Entity Framework Core

Relations with Azure Cosmos DB and EF Core

After some first experiments using the EF Core provider with Azure Cosmos DB, with the second article on EF Core … Continue reading Relations with Azure Cosmos DB and 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

Conference

Tech Conference 2018 in Vienna

At Tech Conference 2018 in Vienna I had three great presentations – covering Docker, .NET Core, and XAML. I hope … Continue reading Tech Conference 2018 in Vienna

.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

.NET Core, Entity Framework Core

Entity Framework Core – Table per Hierarchy

The mature brother of Entity Framework Core, Entity Framework, supports several inheritance models – Table per Type (TPT), Table per … Continue reading Entity Framework Core – Table per Hierarchy