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As .NET Developers, managing databases via EF Core is a core task. In this article we're going to explore some ways to make this process easier and more repeatable. At the end we'll look at achieving all of this with a single command.

As a longtime Windows developer, I decided to try a MacBook Air 13" as a travel device, influenced by my other colleagues who mostly prefer MacBooks. To my surprise, the Mac's performance and battery life far surpassed Windows in every test I conducted. This article is a comparison of the two laptops and the results of the tests.

For web developers, building REST APIs is our bread and butter. We use them to expose data and functionality to our clients and to integrate systems together. However, there is no point building the most beautiful API in the world if consumers can't easily use it. In this article were going to look at several strategies we can use to integrate Open API (formerly Swagger) into our .NET 8 Minimal API. We'll investigate some the pitfalls of some of these strategies, and look at how we can use Typed Results to make our APIs more consistent and easier to consume

In this blog post, we'll look at the challenge of whitelisting IP addresses when executing EF Core Migration Bundles from a GitHub Workflow. We'll look at several options and explore the pros and cons of each. In particular, how to deal with the challenge of dealing with the possible ~4000 IP ranges that GitHub Runners can use.

This blog post delves into the latest updates in Entity Framework Core ORM (EF Core 8), emphasizing its new features and performance improvements. Key highlights include Complex Types for more expressive models, Unmapped Queries for running SQL without an ORM setup, Primitive Collections to store lists of primitives without extra tables, and support for `DateOnly` and `TimeOnly` types. EF Core 8 also enhances Bulk Updates & Deletes, offers advanced JSON Column capabilities, introduces Hierarchy IDs for efficient hierarchical data management, and implements Sentinel Values for better control over database defaults.