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• Retrieving data with DbContext

  By Christos S. on August 24, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  DbContext class is the one among others that the Entity Framework team has created, in order to facilitate developers when accessing and manipulating database data. In a nutshell, DbContext, DbSet, and DbQuery are the classes that have encapsulated the most… Read More ›

• Stored Procedures, Views and Transaction Error handling with Code First Entity Framework

  By Christos S. on August 17, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Code First doesn’t support Stored Procedure mapping by default, at least in the way Database First does (from the designer window). More over, it has an unusuall way to map a Domain Model class to a database view. This post… Read More ›

• Configuring Relationships with Entity Framework Code First

  By Christos S. on August 11, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Code First approach allows you to create the Domain Model classes on your own and let Entity Framework do the hard work creating the actual database for you. We have seen in previous post an introduction in Code First development… Read More ›

• Starting with Code First in Entity Framework

  By Christos S. on August 3, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Code First is probably the most preferred way to build an Entity Data Model that can be used with Entity Framework to perform data access. Database First and Model First are the also quite important but less used. In Code… Read More ›

• Background Processes in ASP.NET Web Forms

  By Christos S. on July 20, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Sometimes you need to run operations behind the scenes, in a different thread from the one that ASP.NET Framework uses to process Web Pages. Multitasking in Web Pages can be quite tricky and difficult cause meshing with threads can make… Read More ›

• Exchange Json Data with Web API

  By Christos S. on July 14, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Web API is the ultimate .NET Framework which allows you to exchange data with a service through HTTP requests. You can send data to it or get back different types of data but the most common usage is the Json… Read More ›

• Create and consume WCF Restful Service using an HttpClient

  By Christos S. on July 12, 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  Restful Services are getting more and more popular in our days and .NET developers prefer to build them through the Web API Framework, which let’s be honest it sounds right. You need to know though that WCF Framework also provides… Read More ›

• Retrieve Child and Parent column values in ADO.NET

  By Christos S. on July 6, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  In ADO.NET you can compute Child or Parent column values, coming from DataTable objects that are related using a DataRelation between them. If you don’t know how DataRelation is used in ADO.NET read a previous post of these ADO.NET series…. Read More ›

• Web API basic CRUD Operations following HTTP principles

  By Christos S. on June 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Web API makes building HTTP Services quite easy and pleasant since most of the hard work is taking place under it’s Framework’s umbrella. For example, when a client application makes a call to a Web API client, Web API can… Read More ›

• Starting with Web API in ASP.NET MVC

  By Christos S. on June 24, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Web API is the perfect platform for building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework. If you want to build HTTP services that can reach any kind of client, Web API is what you need. Many developers are confused and cannot… Read More ›