My annual review (2022) [Editorial]
In the beginning of 2022, I would never have thought of such a turbulent year. After all, we went more or less over the pandemic, and there were at least some positive signs that were sparking some...
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#CASBAN6: the DTOs and mappings
We already have created our database and our entities, so let’s have a look at how we bring the data to our API consuming applications. If we recap, our entity models contain all the relations and...
#CASBAN6: Implementing the data model using EntityFramework Core (separate libraries)
EntityModel library When I started the project, I started with creating the classes for all the tables that I need for my blog engine. I have put them into their own library to keep things clean. ...
#CASBAN6: the data model explained
Preface Initially, this post should have been about the direct implementation and design of the data model for my serverless blog engine. As the data model became a bit more complex, I decided to ...
#CASBAN6: How to set up a local Microsoft SQL database on macOS
Microsoft’s SQL Server cannot be installed directly on macOS, like on Windows machines. Luckily, there is a not so complicated solution using a Docker container – provided by Microsoft themselves. ...
#CASBAN6: Creating A Serverless Blog on Azure with .NET 6 (new series)
Motivation I was planning to run my blog without WordPress for quite some time. For one, because WordPress is really blown up as a platform. The second reason is more of a practical nature – this ...
Make the IServiceProvider of your MAUI application accessible with the MVVM CommunityToolkit
As you might know, I am in the process of converting all my internal used libraries to be .NET MAUI compatible. This is quite a bigger task than initially thought, although I somehow enjoy the proc...
Invoke platform code in a MAUI app using the built-in Dependency Injection
In Xamarin.Forms, my internal libraries for MVVM helped me to keep my applications cleanly structured and abstracted. I recently started the process of porting them over to .NET MAUI. I was quickly...
Using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package in (Xamarin.Forms) MVVM applications (Part 2)
The Key Our goal is to add keyed registrations to the IServiceCollection, so we need a common denominator to build upon. As I was able to use a string with the SimpleIoc implementation of MVVMLigh...
Book review (and recommendation): Learn T-SQL Querying
The Fundamentals In the first section of the book, the authors give us an overview about the anatomy of a query (going very deep) and how SQL Server (also on Azure) processes queries. They also ex...