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Entity Framework Core 3.1 Bug vs 2.2, Speed and Memory During Streaming
Full source code available here. A while ago I wrote a blog post about the advantages of streaming results from Entity Framework Core as opposed to materializing them inside a controller and the returning the results.
Sep 16, 2020 # dotNet Core, AspNet, Entity Framework Core, Performance
Getting Started with Elasticsearch, Part 2 - Searching with a HttpClient
Full source code available here. In the previous blog post I showed how to setup Elasticsearch, create and index and seed the index with some sample documents. That is not a lot of use without the ability to search it.
Sep 10, 2020 # Elasticsearch, AspNet, dotNet Core
Getting Started with Elasticsearch, Part 1 – Seeding
Want to learn more about AWS Lambda and .NET? Check out my A Cloud Guru course on ASP.NET Web API and Lambda. Full source code available here. This is the first in a short series of blog posts that will get you started with Elasticsearch.
Aug 22, 2020 # Elasticsearch, Node.js, AWS
DynamoDb, Reading and Writing Data with .Net Core – Part 2
Want to learn more about AWS Lambda and .NET? Check out my A Cloud Guru course on ASP.NET Web API and Lambda. Full source code available here. A few weeks ago I posted about reading and writing data to DynamoDb.
Aug 6, 2020 # dotNet Core 3.1, DynamoDb, AspNet, AWS
Enum ToString(), Caching for Performance
Full source code available here. A while ago I was working on a program that had to convert enums values to strings as it saved data. When I removed the enum value from the data that was saved it went noticeably faster.
Jul 24, 2020 # C#, Enum, ToString, Caching
DynamoDb, Reading and Writing Data with .Net Core - Part 1
Want to learn more about AWS Lambda and .NET? Check out my A Cloud Guru course on ASP.NET Web API and Lambda. Full source code available here. A few weeks ago I started playing with DynamoDb in a .
Jul 5, 2020 # dotNet Core 3.1, AspNet, DynamoDb, AWS
Dependency Inject a Service from Startup back to Program in .Net Core 3.1
Full source code available here. Over the past couple of years I wrote a few posts about Dependency Injection in .Net Core 2.1, and this week I received comments from a reader telling me that some of the changes in .
Jun 20, 2020 # dotNet Core 3.1, Dependency Injection, AspNet
Executing a Method on All Implementations of an Interface
Full source code available here. Have you ever wanted to execute a method on all implementations of an interface? Say you have an interface called IGenerator and four implementations of it – GeneratorA, GeneratorB, GeneratorC, and GeneratorD.
Jun 1, 2020 # Activator, C#, CreateInstance, Interfaces
AutoMapper, ProjectTo() – Instance Version
Full source code available here. In my previous post I showed how to use the wonderful AutoMapper ProjectTo() feature, the demo code shown worked with AutoMapper up to v8.1.1. It looked like this –
May 15, 2020 # AutoMapper, Entity Framework Core, ProjectTo, AspNet
AutoMapper, ProjectTo() – Static Version
Full source code available here. I’ve been using AutoMapper for quite a few years, but one of the features that I like the most is the ProjectTo method. When using Entity Framework it lets me reduce the number of fields I query from the database to match the model I want to return to the caller.
Apr 27, 2020 # AutoMapper, Entity Framework Core, ProjectTo, AspNet