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In this post I’m going to describe the cleanest way to setup your Entity Framework code in .Net Core. For this example, I’m going to create the database first, then I’ll run a POCO generator to generate the Plain Old C# Objects and their mappings. Finally, I’ll put it together in a clean format. The … Read moreEntityFramework .Net Core Basics
One of the most frustrating changes made in .Net Core is the NuGet package manager. I like the way the new package manager works, unfortunately, there are still a lot of bugs in the way the package manager works. I call it the tyranny of intelligent software. The software is supposed to do all the … Read moreDot Net Core and NuGet Packages
Attempting to use the correct NuGet packages for your code in .Net Core can be challenging. In this instance there is no project.json error and yet this one property is missing: This will happen when your EF database project contains at least these two NuGet packages: “dependencies”: { “Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore”: “1.1.1”, “NETStandard.Library”: “1.6.1” … Read moreDBContextOptionsBuilder does not contain a definition for ‘UseSqlServer’
I’ve talked about Inversion Of Control in previous posts, but I’m going to go over it again. If you’re new to IOC containers, breaking dependencies and unit testing, then this is the blog post you’ll want to read. So let’s get started… Basic Concept of Unit Testing Developing and maintaining software is one of the … Read moreDot Net Core Using the IOC Container
When I started using .Net Core and xUnit I found it difficult to find information on how to mock or fake the Entity Framework database code. So I’m going to show a minimized code sample using xUnit, Entity Framework, In Memory Database with .Net Core. I’m only going to setup two projects: DataSource and UnitTests. … Read moreDot Net Core In Memory Unit Testing Using xUnit