Tags: PersonService At my company we have a service which provides information about all employees. The service has only one table and returns either a single object representing an employee or a DataTable containing information about one or more employees. The service gets it's information from our HR system. The service allows you to specify … Continue reading Getting Started Building the Person Service

Tags: .NET Standard;C#; I recently created a new .NET library, which I wrote about here, and I decided to create it using the new .NET Standard library. I had read about .NET Standard when they announced it and read several articles that discussed it of which Rick Strahl's article is a must read. As with … Continue reading Some Things I Learned While Getting Started with .NET Standard

Tags: C#;Security I recently had a need to generate a password that met a defined policy. I came across several good discussions on Stack Overflow that provided ways to generate cryptographically secure passwords using RNGCryptoServiceProvider to generate truly random bytes. Yet none of the discussions talked about how to implement policies such as having at … Continue reading A New Password Library in C#

Tags: EFCore, ASPNETCore, Prefix, DBMonitor In my last article I talked about getting started with Entity Framework Core. In this article I want to cover the diagnostics aspect of Entity Framework Core. We will look at enabling logging in our application and how to use a profiler to get more in-depth information about Entity Framework. … Continue reading Adding Diagnostics in Entity Framework Core

Tags: EFCore, dotConnect, Oracle, MSSQLServer, dotnetcore Goals Having a little experience with previous versions of the Entity Framework, I wanted to learn Entity Framework Core. We use a mixture of Oracle and MS SQL Server at work, and I wanted to understand the differences of getting started with each. So in this article I will … Continue reading Getting Started with Entity Framework Core