- 08/05/2023
- 2 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.
All posts with Tag Entity Framework
- 30/01/2023
- 1 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.
- 12/01/2023
- 0 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!
- 11/01/2023
- 4 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);
- 10/12/2022
- 0 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?