Gracefully Handling Entity Framework Exceptions with EntityFramework.Exceptions

Working with databases can sometimes be daunting, mainly when errors occur. These errors or exceptions can be due to many reasons, such as constraint violations, connection issues, or syntax errors. Entity Framework throws a generic DbException or DbUpdateException for most of these database issues. But we cand get more specific exceptions based on the concrete "problem"! That's where EntityFramework.Exceptions comes in.

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08/05/2023
3 min

Entity Framework and ordered indexes

In Entity Framework 7, the team has added support for ordered indexes to the fluent API. In this blog post we will look at how to use this feature and what it means for your database.

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30/01/2023
2 min

Native DateOnly and TimeOnly support in Entity Framework 8 in SQL Server

.NET 6 brought us two new datatypes: DateOnly and TimeOnly. For those types we don't have any first class support in Entity Framework - until now.

There is a recent change, that hit us with Entity Framework 8 that might ease the situation and brings native support for those types.

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12/01/2023
1 min

Entity Framework 8: Raw SQL queries on unmapped types

The next iteration of Entity Framework, namely Entity Framework 8, will have a new and exciting feature:

Support raw SQL queries without defining an entity type for the result

That means less boilerplate code!

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11/01/2023
5 min

Easy Pagination for Entity Framework in 3 steps

Pagination is the process of dividing a set into discrete pages. In the context of Entity Framework, that means we are only getting a certain amount of entries from the database.

And we will implement a very easy solution to make that happen in 3 steps. The result will look like this:

var pagedList = DbContext.BlogPosts.ToPagedList(page: 1, pageSize: 5);

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10/12/2022
1 min

Delete a record without prior loading in Entity Framework

Sometimes you have an Id of an object and want to delete the underlying thing from the database. But it doesn't make sense to load the whole object from the database to memory first. So how can we achieve this quickly?

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