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…
Design patterns medley: Command and decorator
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…
Cosmos DB SDK v3 preview
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…