EF Core Migrations: .NET CLI Commands

One of the new platforms that we’re targeting in Entity Framework Core is ASP.NET Core. With this new platform comes a new set of challenges for how we enable the Entity Framework commands. Ever since Entity Framework 4.3, we’ve provided a set of PowerShell commands that could be run in Visual Studio from NuGet’s Package Manager Console. However, that won’t help you if you’re developing on OSX where neither PowerShell nor Visual Studio are available. This post will show you how to use the new Entity Framework .NET Core CLI Commands.

Using WinMerge with TortoiseGit

I love WinMerge. My favorite features of it are syntax highlighting and moved block detection. I also love TortoiseGit. Let’s look at how to use WinMerge with TortoiseGit.

Querying in PowerShell

Thanks to my work on Entity Framework’s Code First Migrations NuGet PowerShell commands, I’ve gained quite a bit of experience programming in PowerShell. In this post, I want to show you some of PowerShel’s query operators.

Command Prompt is Ugly

As a developer, I spend a fair amount of time in Command Prompt. Let’s face it, it’s ugly.

System.Data.SQLite on Entity Framework 6

Image Resizer 3 Preview 3 Update 3 Released

That’s right, I just released a third minor update to Image Resizer 3 Preview 3. This one fixes a bug in the context menu handler that was causing problems with some other extensions. The update also includes some community translations to French and German.

Entity Framework 5 on PostgreSQL

This walkthrough will get you started with an application that uses the Entity Framework (EF) to read and write data from a PostgreSQL database. It is intended to be similar to the Code First to a New Database walkthrough.