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Derek Comartin

Roundup #57: Dapr, .NET Core API Porting, EF Core 3 NETStandard2, ASP.NET Core Best Practices

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Announcing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) Dapr is an open source, portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge. Dapr embraces the diversity of all programming languages and developer frameworks and simplifies building applications such as the e-commerce example. Link: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/16/announcing-dapr-open-source-project-build-microservice-applications/ .NET Core 3.0 concludes the .NET Framework API porting project We started in… Read More »Roundup #57: Dapr, .NET Core API Porting, EF Core 3 NETStandard2, ASP.NET Core Best Practices

Roundup #56: Blazor Server Performance, NetCore3 as Self-Contained, F# and Giraffe, Domain Modeling Made Functional

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Blazor Server in .NET Core 3.0 scenarios and performance Since the release of Blazor Server with .NET Core 3.0 last month lots of folks have shared their excitement with us about being able to build client-side web UI with just .NET and C#. At the same time, we’ve also heard lots of questions about what Blazor Server is, how it relates to Blazor WebAssembly, and what scenarios Blazor Server… Read More »Roundup #56: Blazor Server Performance, NetCore3 as Self-Contained, F# and Giraffe, Domain Modeling Made Functional

Avoiding the Repository Pattern with an ORM

For many years now I’ve advocated not using the repository pattern on top of an ORM such as Entity Framework. There are many reasons why that I’ll try and cover throughout this post based on ways that I’ve seen it implemented. Meaning, this post is talking about poorly implemented approaches or pitfalls that I’ve seen. To clarify, since this topic seems to really fire people up, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t use the repository pattern. I’m going to clarify why I don’t think under certain situations it’s very useful and other situations that I do find it useful. This… Read More »Avoiding the Repository Pattern with an ORM