Coupon for my EF Core Video Course

I blogged previously about the courses on Entity Framework Core that are published on PacktPub.  I am excited to offer a valuable coupon for the fist 10 people who claim it Just a reminder that this couple applies to the second course. Course Names: Mastering Entity Framework Core – Mapping, Querying and Manipulating Data Mastering …

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My Courses are Live on PacktPub

Course Names: Mastering Entity Framework Core – Mapping, Querying and Manipulating Data Mastering Entity Framework Core – Advanced Querying, Migrations and Testing Introduction These two courses walk the users through learning all the aspects of Entity Framework Core that you can use today to build .NET Core applications.  These two courses will cover everything you …

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Getting Started with ASP.NET v.Next Beta 7

I wanted to document the steps I had to take to write an Web Api application with Entity Framework using beta 7 of ASP.NET v. next.  I already had previous beta installed. First step is to update version manager (dnvm) runtime.  Just open Visual Studio command prompt and type the following dnvm update-self If this …

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Entity Framework 7 Migrations API Video

I created a short, 30 minutes video on how to get started with Entity Framework 7 Migrations inside ASP.NET v. next (ASP.NET 5).  I decided that video would be much better than huge blog post with a ton of screenshots.  II uploaded it to YouTube to my channel as a means to share my experiment.  …

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Getting Started with EF 7 Video

I created a short, 25 minutes video on how to get started with Entity Framework 7 inside ASP.NET v. next (ASP.NET 5).  I decided that video would be much better than huge blog post with a ton of screenshots.  I based this decision on something I would want to watch.  Looking out for number 1 …

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Measuring Entity Framework Performance using ETW

ETW, or Event Tracing for Windows, is a technology from Microsoft that allows for extremely fast logging from a running application.  Windows itself is using ETW, and technology has been part of Windows since Windows 2000.  A developer can write code to start and stop tracing sessions, given that an application being traced has been …

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Publish ASP.NET v.Next to IIS

In this post I want to document the steps of publishing an ASP.NET v Next web site to IIS and have it successfully use an SQL Server database.  I am going to assume you downloaded the preview version of Visual Studio 2015 that allows you to create v. next projects.  Start Visual Studio 2015 and …

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