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Exploring Active Record as a base for business entities in a business logic layer with Entity Framework

For systems that are CRUD heavy, Active Record is still not a bad pattern of choice for some of your objects. While today it is avoided in much larger applications, I wouldn’t deem it as obsolete, and when used right,…
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Using your own database schema and classes with ASP.NET Core Identity and Entity Framework Core

I’m going to walk you through configuring ASP.NET Core Identity to use your own database schema instead of the default tables and columns provided. Doing this only changes the schema, so it still allows you to rely on password hashing,…
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Using DataTestMethod and DataRow to pass parameters to a unit test and prevent duplicating test methods

In TDD, you will need to test for various inputs based on some condition. For example, we have a class that is responsible for generating dynamic SQL for a reporting system that allows the user to select from various operators….
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Threads, locks, deadlocks, race conditions, and thread safety in multi-threaded code

Before proceeding, I am going to state that I will talk about multi-threading with a user interface in a different blog. It warrants its own post, so here we will focus on pure threading concepts. At some point in your…
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Adding support for reading 3 of 9 Extended barcodes (containing lowercase characters) with GdPicture9

3 of 9 barcodes are just about everywhere, and are one of the easiest barcodes to work with being widely supported by many SDK’s. 3 of 9 originally supported only a subset of the ASCII character set, and later was…
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Custom Method Names via Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Web API 2

I am using Web API 2 in my ASP.NET MVC 5 project, and I found myself needing custom routes very quickly.Â In my scenario I’m building a single-page application using AngularJS, so all the data is received and sent to and…
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Learning MVVM from the ground up for building real-world software

My two MVVM video series` on YouTube have become very popular, and I have every intention of continuing getting more information out there on MVVM through my Enterprise series. If you haven’t had a chance to check out the videos,…
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Enterprise MVVM in WPF: Building ActionCommand and using it, the DAL, and BAL in your ViewModel

New video continuing the enterprise MVVM series.

WPF: How to Template, Style, and Animate a WPF Button Control

Having vacation time has been nice because it has put me on a roll with pumping out some video content for you guys. Another video I did on re-templating, styling, and animating a WPF button control. We will do other…
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Enterprise MVVM in WPF: Adding Data and Business Layers using Entity Framework

Second video in the Enterprise MVVM in WPF series where I demonstrate the practice of adding a data layer and business layer using Entity Framework and test driven development (TDD). Learn how to make a unit of work business context…
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