Blog Articles

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

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.

Unit testing your C# code has truly never been easier. Today I will introduce how to get up and running and unit testing your C# code in only a matter of seconds with one of the latest testing technologies, xUnit, using a Test Driven Development (TDD) approach.

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.

Sometimes as developers we’re faced with making a certain piece of code perform faster. We often need to decide which piece of code performs the best. Benchmarking provides us concrete measurements between different pieces of code, so we can make verifiably correct decisions based on performance. In this post, I’ll introduce the BenchmarkDotNet library. This library simplifies the process of benchmarking our .NET code, and provides a bunch of cool features out of the box.

I hear it all the time: Entity Framework is slow, Entity Framework can't handle this kind of volume, We need to rip out Entity Framework for regular SQL. In some cases this is necessary, but let me demonstrate a few easy ways to make sure you're eeking the most performance out of your Entity Framework queries.