.NET Core

There are a few road blocks from migrating to .NET Core.  One roadblock is .NET Framework API’s that are not included in NETStandard2.0.  Another, is NuGet Package dependencies. I’ll cover the API surface in another post, but for this post I want to show you a couple quick ways you can check if your NuGet package dependencies are compatible with .NET Core. Checking NuGet.org If you head over to NuGet.org and search for the package you depend on, there you can click to expand the Dependencies heading which will list all the targets.  Here’s an example of the MediatR package.… Read More »Migrating to .NET Core: NuGet Package Dependencies

If you are planning on migrating from Entity Framework 6.x to Entity Framework Core, there is likely one major road block: Lazy Loading. In most circumstances I don’t think lazy loading is a good idea.  If you were using Entity Framework, you may be using Lazy Loading unintentionally since it’s built in by default. Eager Loading To eager load a related entity, you specify the related entity to be populated with the Include() method.  This is applicable in EF and EF Core.  However in Entity Framework 6.x, if you do not Include() a related entity, and access that navigation property,… Read More »EF Core: Logging Lazy Loading