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Entity Framework Core Cosmos DB provider

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

Awesome Northwind

Akos Nagy

Feb 5, 2019

Whenever I give a talk at a meetup or teach at a course or just want to try a demo about a data driven technology, my biggest problem (and the biggest nag) is always to get some real(istic) sample data. Thankfully there are sample databases available on the internet

Updating the LinqPad CosmosDB datacontext driver - again

Akos Nagy

Feb 3, 2019

A while back I have received an issue in the Github repo of my LinqPad CosmosDB datacontext driver. After fixing that issue, the same individual also suggested a new feature. After fixing the bug, I have decided to take on this small enchancement. And now you can go ahead and

MS 70-777: Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions Beta passed

Akos Nagy

Oct 27, 2018

A while back I received a voucher code that I could use to try the new – and then still beta – exam 70-777: Implementing Azure Cosmos DB Solutions. Since I do use Cosmos DB quite often (you can read my other Cosmos DB posts here, or check out the LinqPad Cosmos

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LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 3

Akos Nagy

May 12, 2018

In my last post and the one before that I was writing about the process of releasing a new version of my LinqPad CosmosDb DataContext Driver. Those were the two important steps to make before the actual update of the driver — and now, it's finally here. If you

LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 2

Akos Nagy

May 9, 2018

In my latest post I described my first steps to update my LinqPad Cosmos Db driver The whole idea was to show how the "backend" of my new and updated driver can be used as a standalone component. This makes updating and maintaining the component much better and

LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 1

Akos Nagy

May 7, 2018

A while back I created a CosmosDb data context driver for LinqPad. Originally, I found the request on uservoice and I thought I'd give it a try. The end result was pretty OK, I guess. People started using it; I mean, this is not the "next big

LinqPad DocumentDb (now CosmosDb) driver

Akos Nagy

May 22, 2017

If you are a .NET programmer, you are probably familiar with LinqPad. I myself find it useful in some situations (and there are others, when not) and I do use it myself. For a while I've been looking for a new project that I could hack on in

StackOverflow Adventures: DocumentDb and inheritance

Akos Nagy

Mar 27, 2017

I stumbled upon this question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42858166/deserialize-json-into-multiple-inherited-classes/42858968#42858968 Here's the gist of it: OP wanted to store instances of different descendants of a class in DocumentDb and then read them back — but it wasn't working. So what's

StackOverflow Adventures: DocumentDb response chunking

Akos Nagy

Mar 17, 2017

Not long ago I stumbled upon this interesting question on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42600008/how-to-get-more-than-100-query-results-with-azure-documentdb-rest-api The asker used the REST API of Azure DocumentDb to query some data, but they could only get back the first 100 documents. If they used the .NET SDK, they could get all

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