One of the most common questions I get when people see a video or presentation about how I build MVC applications is, “Why don’t you use the repository pattern?” There are a lot of reasons not to use the repository pattern, and they’ve been well-covered by others. But, one valid benefit they provide is encapsulation…
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Category: <span>EntityFramework</span>
Returning Multiple Result Sets from a Stored Procedure Using Entity Framework 6
I know, I know, you’re already rolling your eyes! “Stored procedures??!?” But hey, sometimes a stored procedure is the best solution to a problem! Entity Framework allows you to call stored procedures quite easily out of the box, but working with sprocs that return multiple result sets isn’t so easy. Here’s a handy extension method…
Entity Framework, Enums, and TINYINT
Entity Framework supports Enum properties on your model, but there’s one little gotcha that’s bitten me on more than one occasion now. In your database, you may be tempted to save space by configuring the backing column to use an integer value that takes up less space than a normal int, such as a TINYINT…
Random Link Roundup–9/19/2014
It’s Friday, which means another round-up of useful links. Oh, and a cat picture! [more] There’s some really cool stuff coming with C# 6.0. Check out some of the enhancements! Be sure to check out EntityFramework.Extended if you are using Entity Framework. It adds support for future queries, caching, and auditing to EF. Want to…
Random Link Roundup
Happy Friday! Here are some random, useful links I have come across over the last couple of weeks. [more] If you follow the standard of using ViewBag.Title to set page titles in ASP.NET MVC, you have probably run into an annoying problem that occurs when you combine Editor Templates with view models that contain a…
Making TransactionScope Work with async/await in .NET 4.5
I ran into a frustrating little problem today. I’m getting started with Entity Framework 6 and its async features on a new project, and my SpecsFor integration tests were bombing out unexpectedly. In turns out the problem was caused by TransactionScope and async work together out of the box. Or rather, how they don’t work…
A Generic Entity Framework 5 Repository With Eager-Loading
I’ve been doing some work with Entity Framework 5 lately. Here’s a simple generic repository I created that allows you to “Include” related entities by applying an attribute. [more] Consider these sample entities: public class User { [Key] public int UserId { get; set; } [Required, MaxLength(50)] public string Username { get; set; } [Required]…
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