In my series exploring EF Migrations it is time to look into updates to tables. In this post I’ll make a simple update of a table by adding a column to it. Expanding on the example from the previous posts in this series a TopSpeed column is added to the cars table. Before doing the… Continue reading Updating a Table with EF Migrations
Author: Anders Abel
Adding Indexes with EF Migrations
Most business applications use a database. Creating the database in the first place is the easy part. Continously evolving the database schema during development when multiple team members are doing changes in various parts of the database is one of the hard parts. The really hard part is to be able to upgrade – or… Continue reading Adding Indexes with EF Migrations
Using Entity Framework to Create a Database
It’s been a few years since I worked with Entity Framework and there have been substantial improvements. Still I have been missing a life cycle view on the database, where the evolution of a database schema during development and maintenance is fully supported. The latest Entity Framework 4.3 release contains EF Migrations which claims to… Continue reading Using Entity Framework to Create a Database
Indexed SelectList Factory
In the Type Safe SelectList Factory post I showed one way to improve the SelectList constructor. Recently I wrote another one, when I needed a SelectList that has the selected item’s index as the value. I used this together with jQuery to get details about the selected item from a separately supplied json array.
Null Handling with Extension Methods
Often we cannot be sure if a parameter passed in to a function has a value. To write error safe code all those parameters have to be checked for null and handled. We have the ?? coalesce operator to help, but still it can be quite a lot of code. Through the use of extension… Continue reading Null Handling with Extension Methods