Azure provide us with the possibility to deploy an application in a cloud environment in an easy and safe way. In this article, I explain how to deploy a Web API using .NET 5 and an MS SQL Server Database in a cloud environment in Azure. …

Docker and Kubernetes are technologies that allow us to build and deliver applications in a more efficient way. Summarizing in one phrase, Docker is a containerization platform and Kubernetes is a container orchestrator for container platforms like Docker. In this article, I give an overview of Docker and Kubernetes.

Container

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API is an acronym for “Application Program Interface”. A WEB API can be used in many kinds of applications and acts as a kind of mediator between two applications. If you are creating a website, or a Single Page Application (SPA), or a mobile application, or when you need to…

Monolithic and Microservices Architecture are two different approaches that can be used to create an application, and each approach has its pros and cons. In this article I explain the main difference between them, and what are some of the benefits and challenges of each architecture.

Monolithic Architecture

A Monolith…

A new feature that was added on Entity Framework Core 5, it’s the possibility to create a Table-per-Type (TPT) mapping. In this article, I explain the difference between the Table-per-Hierarchy (TPH) mapping and the Table-per-Type (TPT) mapping.

By default, EF Core maps an inheritance hierarchy of .NET types to a…

A new feature on Entity Framework Core 5, it’s the possibility to split a query into multiple SQL queries. On EF Core 3.0 for example, a single query was generated for each LINQ query, but now on EF Core 5, there is the possibility to split the query. …

In this article, we will migrate a WEB API application from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0.

Prerequisites

For this migration, I will be using Visual Studio. The first step it’s necessary to do is:

• download the Visual Studio 2019 16.8 or later, with the ASP.NET and web development workload…

Dependency Injection (DI) is a design pattern which supports the development of loosely coupled code, and it’s also one of the SOLID principles (Dependency Inversion Principle). On this article, I will explain how we can use Dependency Injection and what is the difference between the three services lifetimes that can…