Visual Studio Magazine

Creating the Right Database Initializer for Entity Framework

For example, the default option is to create a database initializer class that inherits from CreateDatabaseIfNotExists. With this option the first line of code that accesses the database triggers the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Checking Up on Your Entity Framework Objects with DbEntityEntry

Practical .NET Checking Up on Your Entity Framework Objects with DbEntityEntry The Entity Framework DbEntityEntry object lets you do all sorts of things you probably didn't think were possible, ...
InfoWorld

How to improve data access performance in EF Core

Take advantage of these 10 strategies to improve data access performance when using Entity Framework Core in your data-driven .NET applications. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is an open source ORM ...
InfoWorld

How to use Data Transfer Objects in ASP.NET Core 3.1

Learn the benefits of Data Transfer Objects, why they should be immutable, and how to take advantage of them in your ASP.NET Core applications A Data Transfer Object (commonly known as a DTO) is ...