EFCore.Projectables and the curious case of an unexpected performance boost

 Posted on July 15, 2021  (Last modified on July 16, 2021)  |  7 minutes

Last time, I wrote about a new library called EntityFrameworkCore.Projectables. In short this library allows us to query over properties and methods completely written in CSharp. While I was implementing benchmarks to test the overhead of this Library, I was surprised to find out that the performance was actually improved when using Projectables over not using Projectables. Surely I must have made a mistake somewhere right? Well, lets dive in and see if we can find that out! [Read More]
.NET  EFCore  EFCore.Projectables 

EF Projections on computed properties and methods without a hassle!

 Posted on June 3, 2021  (Last modified on January 1, 2023)  |  10 minutes

One of EF’s main selling points is that it allows you to write queries without having to deal with the underlying database technology being used. This however has its limitations as you as a developer will have likely encountered. EFCore is only able to handle expressions that are typed as such. As a result, if you try to select anything from a locally computed property or method then EFCore will have to fall back to client-side evaluation to compute the result of that expression which may be inefficient and is certainly limiting! [Read More]
.NET  EFCore  EFCore.Projectables 

Triggers for Entity Framework Core

 Posted on April 23, 2021  (Last modified on July 14, 2021)  |  7 minutes

When our codebase grows, so does its complexity. One way of managing this growing complexity is by leveraging triggers. Essentially this means that we’re able to run arbitrary code whenever a database commit occurs. Luckily for us, EF Core already provides the necessary infrastructure to embrace triggers. All we need to add is a bit of plumbing. EntityFrameworkCore.Triggered is a NuGet package that does just that. The source can be found over on Github. [Read More]
.NET  EFCore  EFCore.Triggered 

Activator utilities: activate anything!

 Posted on April 22, 2021  (Last modified on July 14, 2021)  |  9 minutes

Dependency injection (DI) is a well-known technique that helps in writing more maintainable code. .NET has excellent support for Dependency injection and is heavily used in platforms such as ASP.NET Core. However, did you know there is a way to automatically instantiate a type with constructor arguments provided from an IServiceProvider without having to register that type with the DI Container first? That’s where ActivatorUtilities comes in.

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.NET  Dependency Injection