In this article, I’ll show you all the object mapping strategies of EF Core and especially the new one: TPC Inheritance Mapping. TPC mapping is the new feature introduced with Entity Framework Core 7. It’s called Table Per Concrete type inheritance mapping. I’ll explain the EF Core’s inheritance mapping strategies...

Error handling with Async/Await in JS This will be a small article, based on some issues I picked up during code reviews and discussions with other developers. This article is rather focused on the novice JS developers. A Simple Try Catch Let’s start with the simple try...catch example. function thisThrows()...

Achieve Typescript mastery with a 21-steps guide, that takes you from Padawan to Obi-Wan. Content Intro Best Practice 1: Strict Type Checking Best Practice 2: Type Inference Best Practice 3: Linters Best Practice 4: Interfaces Best Practice 5: Type Aliases Best Practice 6: Using Tuples Best Practice 7: Using any...

Back in 2008, I wrote a series of articles about using iTextSharp to generate PDF files in an ASP.NET application. I still use iTextSharp in a large MVC 5 application that I'm in the process of migrating to ASP.NET Core. The version I use is very old (4.1.6), and the...

Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created mainly...

The file upload feature requires essential validations to clean and maintain user data. Improper execution of a file upload input increases security vulnerability. So we must approve the uploaded files before sparing them on the server to reduce the vulnerability. Uploading files from clients to servers is among the essential...

Good UX design happens when you don’t notice it during or after the experience. The main goal of good UX design is to take the user on a specific mission as quickly as possible, with the least effort possible. In good UX design, very rarely do users notice the mastery...

A Guide to Building Scalable, Maintainable Web API using ASP .NET Core The term “Clean Architecture” has become increasingly popular in software development in recent years. Clean Architecture is a software design pattern that prioritizes the separation of concerns, making it easier to maintain, test, and evolve an application over...

A Quick Guide to Transient, Scoped, and Singleton in C#. In C#, the Transient, Scoped, and Singleton scopes are options for controlling the lifetime of objects which are created by dependency injection. Transient Transient objects are created each time they are requested. This means that if a Transient is injected...

Design patterns are essential for creating maintainable and reusable code in .NET. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting out, understanding and applying these patterns can greatly improve your coding efficiency and overall development process. In this post, we’ll take a look at the most important design patterns in...

Introduction Today I am going to show how to create a simple PHP application following the MVC pattern (Model-View-Controller). I was inspired by a PHP course I taught some years ago, and in which I built a simple e-commerce with the students. This e-commerce was based on a simple MVC...

NCrunch NCrunch is a powerful tool that automates the testing and debugging of .NET and C# code. It integrates seamlessly into Visual Studio, allowing development teams to quickly identify and fix errors, ensuring that their projects are always of the highest quality. NCrunch is designed to increase the productivity of...

In this tutorial, I'll teach you how to build a simple REST API with PHP and MySQL. REST has become the de facto standard when it comes to exposing data via APIs and building web services. In fact, most web applications these days access and expose data via REST APIs....

Memory leaks have long been programmer’s worst nightmare in .NET. When it comes to production servers, memory leaks are one of the most common and annoying issues. As we all know production servers must operate with the least amount of downtime possible. But memory leaks slow it down and eventually...

OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months in regions like Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to people familiar with the matter. About 60% of the contractors were hired to do...

Today we will see, how to enable Logging directly to Loki via Serilog for a .NET Core Microservice and visualize the logs in Grafana.   Before we start, What is Loki? Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be...

Prerequisites: VSCode and .Net 7 installed. Don't need to copy the code, GitHub link provided in the end. Open up a terminal in VSCode or any IDE of your choice, run: dotnet new console 2 files will appear, default Program.cs and .csproj named according to your folder: Now let's create...

You might already know that Google uses over 200 ranking factors in their algorithm… But what are they, exactly? Well, you’re in for a treat because I’ve put together a complete list. Some are proven. Some are controversial. Others are SEO nerd speculation. But they’re all here. And I recently...

Naming, but not in the way you think. Our knowledge represents a minute portion of reality. Names are the visible portion of that knowledge. Phil Karlton once said, “there are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” One is a real problem; the other is...

Did you ever face a situation where you have a search UI, like a front-end application, that has a data table and you need to support a complex query construction that can contain Free Text search, Sorting of multiple columns, and extra filters and query parameters starts to look a...