An Inquisitive Developer

Have you ever noticed that when using GitHub hosted runners, Windows runners are just... slow? In this article, I demonstrate why and what we can do about it, using .NET workloads as an example.

There's many ways to deploy pending Entity Framework 6 (EF6) migrations, especially for multi-tenanted production scenarios. In this post, I'll demonstrate a strategy to efficiently apply pending migrations using a .NET 6 console app.

Sometimes there are cases where we want to throw a specific exception in our code. When you are writing your tests, how do you account for this? In this article I will work through examples of how to unit test C# code that's expected to throw exceptions.

If you're looking for a simple, yet powerful object relational mapper (ORM) in your .NET applications, consider using Dapper, a lightning fast, lightweight "micro" ORM from the folks that made StackOverflow.

Entity Framework (EF) Core was a complete rewrite from the tried and tested EF6. One of the most touted benefits EF Core has over EF6 is improved performance. Using real benchmarks, I will use worked examples to demonstrate whether Entity Framework 6 or Entity Framework Core performs the best.