Solutions Architect | Developer | Blogger
Solutions Architect | Developer | Blogger
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…
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re either just starting with Entity Framework Core or you’re moving an older project to .NET 9 and want a quick but reliable setup guide. I’ve been in the same boat before, when we…
When I first worked on an internal reporting tool for our financial system, I was greeted by thousands of lines of raw ADO.NET, SqlCommand, DataReader, and manual mapping. It worked, but it was hard to maintain and impossible to test.…
Not too long ago, I wrote a blog post titled Getting Started with FluentValidation, where I focused more on how to use FluentValidation in the backend, particularly with ASP.NET Core Web APIs. That article was all about validating requests before…
Hi there! If you’ve been building ASP.NET Core applications for a while, like I have, you probably reached a point where you started asking yourself: “Is this controller getting too fat? Why do I have so much logic here?” I…
Hi! In this post, I’ll share how we used SignalR in .NET Core to build a real-time API Health Check Dashboard, something we actually deployed, not just a side project. This article is not a generic tutorial, I’ll speak to…
