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Rome .NET Conference 2025: Minimal API e ASP.NET Core 9

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Exploring ASP.NET Core 9 with Minimal APIs: A Full Demo Project A hands-on introduction to Minimal APIs, performance improvements, and OpenAPI integration in .NET 9

March 31, 2025April 9, 2025 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Minimal APIs are becoming a key architectural pattern in the .NET ecosystem—leaner, faster, and easier to write than traditional controller-based Web APIs. With the release of ASP.NET Core 9 (Preview), …

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Entity Framework Core 9 - What's New The New Features of Entity Framework Core 9: Performance Boosts, Advanced Queries, and an Optimized Development Experience

January 25, 2025January 25, 2025 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Over the past few months, we had the chance to test Entity Framework Core 9 (EF Core 9), and it’s clear that this new release is a game-changer for developers …

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Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core in Manning's Top 10! A great achievement for the "Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core" book's first publishing week

May 22, 2023 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

I'm pleased to say that my new Building Web APIs with ASP NET Core book made it into the Manning's Top 10 Titles list in its first week of release!

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Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core - The Book Build fully-featured APIs with ASP.NET Core! An all-practical guide on building modern APIs utilizing REST and GraphQL standards

May 5, 2023May 5, 2023 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

I'm pleased to announce that my new book, Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core, is now available for purchase in E-Book and Paperback format on all the major online stores, …

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ASP.NET Core Web API - Deal of the Day! Exclusive one-day-only offer to save 45% on ASP.NET Core Web API and other Manning titles about ASP.NET Core

June 9, 2022August 3, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, I announced that my upcoming book, ASP.NET Core Web API, which I'm currently writing for Manning Publications, has just reached the MEAP state. Today I have another important …

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ASP.NET Core Web API - The Book A practical guide explaining how to create fully featured Web APIs with the ASP.NET Core framework using REST and GraphQL - Now available for Early Access!

May 12, 2022August 3, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I'm proud to announce that my future book - ASP.NET Core Web API, which I'm currently writing for Manning Publications - has just reached the MEAP state! In case you …

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EF Core: Execute a SQL Query on a different Database How to execute raw SQL queries to different databases and/or non-mapped tables with Entity Framework Core using the HasNoKey and FromSqlRaw methods

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post there's a high chance that you're a ASP.NET Core Developer working on a Web Application accessing a SQL database using Entity Framework Core - …

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System.Linq.Dynamic.Core - Case insensitive Contains() How to use the Contains() method in a case-insensitive way using Entity Framework Core and System.Linq.Dynamic.Core

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few days ago we published a small post explaining how to perform a case insensitive Contains query using Entity Framework Core, since the Contains() method changed its behaviour from …

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Entity Framework Core: case-insensitive Contains() In Entity Framework, the Contains() method used to be case-insensitive: however, such behavior has been changed in EF Core. Here's how to revert it back and perform case-insensitive searches

October 15, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I was working with EF Core and I was implementing some IQueryable filters using this guide. When I was performing my unit tests to see if I did everything properly …

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JsonSerializationException: Self referencing loop detected error - How to fix How to fix the "JsonSerializationException: Self referencing loop detected with type" error that can occur when trying to JSON serialize a Entity Framework result with ASP.NET Core

September 30, 2020January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you're experiencing the following error while trying to serialize an Entity Framework (or EF Core) IQueryable result into a …