Code First frees you up from the chore of creating databases for your project. Here's a primer on how to do it. Entity Framework has been the latest buzzword in the Microsoft Development circle since ...

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At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...

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Some of Code to Inspire’s students didn’t even know what a keyboard was when they enrolled. Now they’re making apps. When a new coding school launched in Herat, Afghanistan, a year ago, some of the ...

When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...

The .NET Entity Framework has come a long way since its early beginnings as an NHibernate alternative and the successor to LinqToSQL. Currently in version 6.0, the ORM is stable and mature but you ...

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Code First Migrations allow for database changes to be implemented all through code. Through the use of Package Manager Console (PMC), commands can be used to scaffold database changes. In this ...