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When working with “expensive” resources, it is essential to call the Dispose method to tell .NET’s garbage collector that it’s time to clean up the instance and all its associated baggage. Disposing of instances is most important when dealing with...
I’ve been diving into Entity Framework Core 5 and learning all I can about the object-relational mapper’s (ORM) inner-workings. With EF Core 5, the newer ORM has learned from its namesake Entity Framework’s past sins. With extensibility points and smarter...
In previous non-core versions of Entity Framework (EF), it was possible to intercept calls to and from the database, but it’s wasn’t a feature many would classify under “first-class support”. Thankfully the community stepped in at the time to fill...
Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) can help increase our productivity. The ORM pattern can handle the integration between our C# models and the database by providing an abstraction that limits our need to understand the underlying data-access mechanisms (not an excuse...
Relational databases are the undisputed database paradigm king. The versatility, battle-hardened reliability, and ubiquity make relational databases a comfortable choice for many developers. That doesn’t mean, as developers, we shouldn’t evaluate other databases that may be better suited for our...
