Solutions Architect | Developer | Blogger
Solutions Architect | Developer | Blogger
When I started working with Entity Framework Core (EF Core), unit testing wasn’t something I gave much attention to. I was more focused on building features that worked. But as my projects grew bigger, especially in systems where business rules…
When I first tried using EF Core with Minimal APIs, I honestly thought it would be just a smaller version of a regular Web API controller setup. I was wrong. It’s simple, yes, but it forces you to think differently…
When I first started mixing EF Core with Blazor WebAssembly, I honestly thought it would be as simple as plugging in my DbContext on the client side and running some queries. I mean, why not, right? Just pull the data…
When I first started using EF Core inside an ASP.NET Core project, I honestly didn’t think too much about dependency injection. I just wanted to run queries, get data, and move on. But after a few projects and some mistakes…
When I first started with Entity Framework Core, I thought LINQ was just a convenient way to avoid writing SQL manually. And honestly, that’s how most of us begin, just trying to fetch a few records without touching raw SQL.…
When I first started using EF Core in one of my projects, I thought seeding data was just about throwing some “default” values into the database. You know, like inserting an admin user or a few predefined roles so the…
In one of my previous projects, a complex multi-tenant inventory management system. I had to make a big decision early on while working with Entity Framework Core: should I use Data Annotations or the Fluent API? At first, it felt…
I still remember the first time I ran my EF Core migration in one of my projects, it was for a payment system where we needed to store EMV transaction logs. I thought, “This will probably take the whole day,…
In one of my client projects a few years ago, we had to extend an existing HR and payroll system. At first, I thought it would just be another Code-First Entity Framework (EF) task. After all, that’s what I’ve always…
I remember when I was just starting to use Entity Framework (EF) seriously in one of my previous projects, a financial settlement system, the biggest hurdle for me was not the queries or migrations. It was understanding how everything in…
