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Feb 2015

Linq Expressions and Combining Linq Expression Trees (Predicate Builder)

Linq has been around for a while now, and it is arguably a very powerful tool to have at your disposal in your development arsenal. It allows very quick and easy traversal of IEnumerable and IQueryable based objects that you would otherwise have to use a loop to work with. First let's take a look at how linq works verses…

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Feb 2015

Entity Framework 6: Eager Loading Entity Models

If you use the Entity Framework in your .Net applications then you should know that accessing child objects of an object model that depends on data from a database forces an ADO.Net call to occur at the time that it is accessed at run time. This is referred to as lazy loading. Imagine the following example: public class Users…

Neil Mutschler C# • .NET • Entity Framework

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Oct 2014

Attribute Routing in .NET Web API

A feature that has just recently been released in the ASP.NET Web API 2 framework, which the Second Street API recently upgraded to, is attribute routing. Before Web API 2, we were constrained to convention based routing using route templates in a global WebApiConfig.cs, which looks like this: public static class WebApiConfig { public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)…

Neil Mutschler C# • API • .NET • Attribute Routing • Web Api

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