Category Foundations

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.…