Working with a many to many relationship in Entity Framework Core has always been one of the harder things for developers new to Entity Framework. This is going to be a short post detailing how to create them and configure the relationship. We’ll also discuss common scenarios when working with them.
If you’re using Entity Framework Core and building any non-trivial enterprise application then using data tables with paging is almost a certainty. There are two ways to do this: server side and client side. Which one you choose depends on your design and your needs. There are pros and cons associated with both so you […]
I wanted to write a quick post about using query filters and automatically populating audit columns in Entity Framework Core since I see a lot of people doing this manually still. A common scenario in most applications is to do soft deletes on everything, typically with a column like “IsDeleted”. Another common scenario that is […]
Entity Framework Core query performance is something that comes up often when working on projects that rely on it heavily. I have often heard that Entity Framework is not performant enough which then leads to everything being written as a stored procedure. Usually this happens for two main reasons: developers aren’t familiar with how to […]
If you’ve worked with APIs at all in .NET Core then you have probably had the need to work with tokens for security. You could roll your own set up just using the underlying functionality in ASP.NET Identity, or you could enable easy mode and use something like IdentityServer4. There are other options out there […]
That is, it’s dead if you are using Entity Framework Core. If you’re still using straight ADO.NET, or even just dapper, then the repository pattern still probably makes sense for you. If you’re using Entity Framework, then you really aren’t gaining much from doing so anymore. Five years ago, you could reasonably argue that it […]