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Entity Framework Code First generators templates

May 14, 2019

If you follow my blog, you know that one of the most prominently featured topics if Entity Framework. A not very-well known, but very useful feature of Entity Framework Code First is the ability to add your custom sql generators that are used when you create sql scripts from your

A Visual Studio extension to really clean your projects

Akos Nagy

May 10, 2019

A while back one of the participants at one of my C# courses asked me if there was a way to really clean your projects: that is, delete the bin and obj folders. Because I think we all know that the "clean project" option of Visual Studio does

Using dependency injection to configure Entity Framework DbContexts

Akos Nagy

May 6, 2019

So let's say you have your own DbContext descendant with a couple of DbSet<T> properties that contain your entities and you also want to configure some of your entities. If you know EF, you probably know how to do this (and why to do it

Entity Framework custom migration generator decorators

Akos Nagy

Apr 26, 2019

In the past I created a number of custom solutions to generate the migration sql from Entity Framework Code First migrations (see my post here for soft delete automation, here for auditing migration automatically, here for specifying filtered indices and the one I created recently about adding an index to

Design patterns medley: Command and decorator

Akos Nagy

Apr 23, 2019

I know that there are a lot of people out there who think design patterns are not useful or not important. You can learn them from any book or catalogue and then you simply add them to you code. While I try to be respectful of all opinions and definitely

Software design

Cosmos DB SDK v3 preview

Akos Nagy

Apr 17, 2019

A while back I reviewed the EF Core Cosmos DB provider preview. But that's not the only big change coming to Cosmos DB. The actual SDK that allows you access to all the features of the service is also getting an update. While I think it's

Entity Framework Core Cosmos DB provider

Akos Nagy

Apr 11, 2019

The Cosmos DB provider for Entity Framework has been available in preview for a while. I've been wanting to check it out ever since I read the announcement, but I haven't really had the time (and to be honest, I was worried it would be not

Updating my extensions for Visual Studio 2019

Akos Nagy

Apr 8, 2019

Last week, Visual Studio 2019 was finally released and with that, I think (I hope) most of us will switch to a new IDE with a lots of cool features. And with that in mind, I sat down and upgraded my extensions in the Visual Studio Marketplace to support the

Visual Studio

C# 8.0 in Visual Studio 2019: what's new

Akos Nagy

Apr 6, 2019

This week VS 2019 finally came out and I was going to write a very enthusiastic and very long post about the new language features of C# 8 that I was hoping would also premier with the new IDE. Well, I was wrong on all counts: no new language version,

C#

Countdown to C# 8: Making the Azure Storage API better with IAsyncEnumerable

Akos Nagy

Mar 28, 2019

C# 8 is just around the corner — and with that, this post will review the last, currently publicly available feature of the new language version: asynchronous streams. If you are interested in my take on the other two, currently available features, check out my posts on them here: * Non-nullable reference

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