Visual Studio extension to change the C# language version of a project
One of the courses that I teach is a workshop on the new features of the new C# language versions. During the course we look at the different language features of C# 6 and the…
Entity Framework Code First generators templates
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…
A Visual Studio extension to really clean your projects
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…
Using dependency injection to configure Entity Framework DbContexts
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…
Entity Framework custom migration generator decorators
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…