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Using in-memory databases for unit testing EF Core applications

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: December 16, 2017

While writing the book Entity Framework Core in Action I wrote over 600 unit tests, which … Continue reading Using in-memory databases for unit testing EF Core applications

Categories .NET Core, Entity Framework35 Comments on Using in-memory databases for unit testing EF Core applications
EF Core: taking full control of the database schema

EF Core: taking full control of the database schema

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: November 23, 2017

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is the new(ish) version of Microsoft’s widely-used database access library. EF … Continue reading EF Core: taking full control of the database schema

Categories .NET Core, Entity Framework4 Comments on EF Core: taking full control of the database schema
EF Core – Combining SQL and NoSQL databases for better performance

EF Core – Combining SQL and NoSQL databases for better performance

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: October 24, 2017

This is the second article in my series on Entity Framework Core (EF Core) performance tuning. … Continue reading EF Core – Combining SQL and NoSQL databases for better performance

Categories .NET Core, Entity Framework, NoSQL, Performance17 Comments on EF Core – Combining SQL and NoSQL databases for better performance
Entity Framework Core performance tuning – a worked example

Entity Framework Core performance tuning – a worked example

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: September 22, 2017

This is the first in a series of articles on performance tuning EF Core. In this … Continue reading Entity Framework Core performance tuning – a worked example

Categories .NET Core, Entity Framework, Performance19 Comments on Entity Framework Core performance tuning – a worked example

Talking at Nottingham, UK .NET Meetup – July 2017

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: July 16, 2017

For anyone in the UK, I am talking at a .NET Meetup group in Nottingham UK … Continue reading Talking at Nottingham, UK .NET Meetup – July 2017

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Entity Framework Core: Client vs. Server evaluation

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: May 17, 2017

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a new, ground-up rewrite of the highly successful Entity Framework … Continue reading Entity Framework Core: Client vs. Server evaluation

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Six ways to build better Entity Framework (Core and EF6) applications

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: March 8, 2017

In this article I describe six different approaches to building applications that use Microsoft’s database access … Continue reading Six ways to build better Entity Framework (Core and EF6) applications

Categories Entity Framework, Software Design12 Comments on Six ways to build better Entity Framework (Core and EF6) applications

More information on my book, Entity Framework Core in Action

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: March 6, 2017

Quite a bit is going on around the book I am writing, called Entity Framework Core … Continue reading More information on my book, Entity Framework Core in Action

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Updating many to many relationships in Entity Framework Core

Last Updated: July 31, 2020 | Created: March 1, 2017

I wrote an article called Updating many to many relationships in entity framework back on 2014 … Continue reading Updating many to many relationships in Entity Framework Core

Categories .NET Core, Entity Framework28 Comments on Updating many to many relationships in Entity Framework Core
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