Building Better Entity Framework Applications

Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft’s Object/Relational (ORM) database access library, with a new generation, EF Core, released in 2016. In...

A Real-World React.js Setup for ASP.NET Core and MVC5

React is a front-end user interface library developed by Facebook, originally to help them improve their own site. Since then...

Introduction to Bower, Grunt, and Gulp in Visual Studio

Developers are now spending much more time writing and debugging JavaScript, CSS, HTML templates etc. Microsoft have responded by adding...

How to Take an Asp.Net MVC Web Site Down for Maintenance

Keeping a customer facing web site up and performing well is a challenge, especially when you are still adding new...

Deploying an Entity Framework Database into Production

Entity Framework can be useful for getting up and running quickly with a database application, but when it comes to...

The Compromise Between Development Time and Performance in Data-Driven ASP.NET MVC

As developers we always want to produce efficient code, but efficient in what - development time or overall performance? In...

Using Entity Framework with an Existing Database: User Interface

Pre-existing databases can pose some difficulties for software developers using an ORM. To demonstrate ways of circumventing them, Jon Smith...

Using Entity Framework With an Existing Database: Data Access

Pre-existing SQL databases, particularly if complex, can often pose problems for software developers who are creating a new application. The...

The .NET 4.5 async/await feature in Promise and Practice

The .NET 4.5 async/await feature provides an opportunity for improving the scalability and performance of applications, particularly where tasks are...

Catching Bad Data in Entity Framework

Any website that rejects the users' input without giving enough information to correct what they're doing is doomed to be...