EF Core 5.0 brings the feature everyone has been asking for: Many-to-Many relationships without a mapped join entity. It also introduces Split Queries to fix the “Cartesian Explosion” problem in complex joins. Many-to-Many You can now define navigation properties on both sides, and EF Core handles the middle table. Split Queries Instead of one giant […]
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Source Generators in C# 9: Compile-Time Code Generation
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.NET 5 is the fastest .NET version ever releases. The engineering team has gone through the runtime and libraries with a fine-toothed comb, optimizing everything from the impacts of the Garbage Collector (GC) to the internals of List<T>. Let’s look at the numbers. TechEmpower Benchmarks In the TechEmpower benchmarks (Round 19/20), .NET 5 performs exceptionally […]
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.NET 5 is the first step in the “One .NET” vision, unifying .NET Core and Mono. It drops the “Core” branding but keeps the Core architecture. This guide covers the migration from .NET Core 3.1, highlighting the breaking changes and performance wins. Project File Changes Update your TFM (Target Framework Moniker). Single File Applications .NET […]
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While Cosmos DB is known for its document (SQL) API, its Graph API powered by Apache TinkerPop and Gremlin query language is incredibly powerful for connected data. If your data is about relationships – social networks, recommendations, knowledge graphs – the Graph API might be the right choice. When to Use Graph Graph databases excel […]
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gRPC is great for microservices, but browsers don’t support HTTP/2 trailers required for standard gRPC. **gRPC-Web** is the protocol adaptation that makes it possible. In .NET, we can now host gRPC-Web services natively alongside standard gRPC. Configuring .NET Server Client Consumption Key Takeaways No need for an external Envoy proxy anymore (though still valid). Performance […]
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