I was incredibly excited when conventions were finally made public in EF6. A convention allows you to set up a policy that a model will follow. For example EF comes with a convention that tables are plural by entities are singular. EF has supported conventions for a while but the necessary public interface was not… Continue reading Entity Framework 6 Conventions
Auditing is generally important in most databases because it is important to know who changed data and when. How auditing data is stored depends upon the system requirements but in general the date/time and user who made a change is important. SQL Server already provides the infrastructure to identify the who and what. Setting up… Continue reading Entity Framework and User Context
I’ve recently been working on a project where I used Entity Framework for the data access. I’ve run into some challenges that don’t seem to be discussed much in the articles on how to properly use ORM. I’m curious if anyone else is having these challenges. While I’m using EF as my base I’m pretty… Continue reading EF Challenges and Ramblings