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In a previous post, I demonstrated a bit of code that uses Reflection to retrieve a proper materialized trace string from Entity Framework 1.1. The 2.0 preview release of EF broke that code, though.

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There are many subtle changes in moving from .NET Core 1.1 to .NET Core 2.0. In this post, I cover some of the breaking changes that I discovered while migrating a recent .NET Core 1.1 application.

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One of the more interesting things from Build was the move to provide different databases as services. Since this opened the possibility of moving my LAMP-based WordPress instance to Azure, I decided to give it a try.

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During Build, one thing that was demoed was the in-line bash shell that is available from the Azure Portal. I couldn’t get this feature, I guessed, to work due to not having a storage account configured.

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Day two of Microsoft Build is slowly coming to a close. Here are a few of my impressions after two days.

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The past few days, I’ve been playing with Quartz in a .NET Core application. My goal was to create a scheduler that could trigger other services via those services having an API.

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In Part 2 of my series on creating Angular templates for Visual Studio 2017, I made a relatively serviceable template for my latest Angular test. But, I knew it could improved.

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A while back, I started looking at ways to port EF6 code, that uses a lot of the API hooks and such, to Entity Framework Core. Over the past week, I managed to port a large scale application that was using EF6 to utilize EF Core. Here are some observations/tips in continuing with my Dotnet Core porting.

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