Visual Studio Magazine

Creating the Right Database Initializer for Entity Framework

For example, the default option is to create a database initializer class that inherits from CreateDatabaseIfNotExists. With this option the first line of code that accesses the database triggers the ...
InfoWorld

How to improve data access performance in EF Core

Take advantage of these 10 strategies to improve data access performance when using Entity Framework Core in your data-driven .NET applications. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is an open source ORM ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Stop Using Entity Framework as Just a DTO Provider

Chris Klug keeps seeing developers using Entity Framework in less optimal ways. Microsoft's open-source object-relational mapper (ORM) for .NET applications is not intended to be used to replicate the ...
TechRepublic

A guide to the 10 most common data modeling mistakes

A guide to the 10 most common data modeling mistakes Your email has been sent Data modeling is the process through which we represent information system objects or entities and the connections between ...
TechRepublic

The different data model types and their uses

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...