In this blog, I am going to provide a walkthrough on developing REST APIs using ASP.NET Core 3.1, connecting with existing databases using Entity Framework, creating a JWT token, and securing APIs. I am going to develop a sample application for an inventory REST service with basic operations. What is a REST API? Due to […]
Sadly, there are a few limitations to using MSSQL as your database engine for your projects. One of them is the fact that your database cannot get bigger than 10 GB. On the bright side, the Entity Framework Core got us covered with MySQL Community alternative! This gives you the ability to connect your project […]
This post shows goes through the steps to connect a .NET 6 API to SQL Server using Entity Framework Core, and automatically create/update the SQL Server database from code using EF Core migrations. We’ll start with an example .NET 6 CRUD API from a tutorial I posted recently, it uses the EF Core InMemory db […]
In this post we’ll go through an example of how to setup an ASP.NET Core project with EF Core DB Contexts and Migrations that support multiple different database providers. The below steps show how to use a SQLite database in development and a SQL Server database in production, but you could switch these to any […]
