If you decide on using an Enum with enumerated values in your Entity Framework class, here are the tools you'll need to make it work. But an enumerated value shouldn't be your first choice. 

A DTO is nothing more than a container class that exposes properties but no methods. A DTO is helpful whenever you need to group values in ad hoc structures for passing data around.  

Everything you need to get started adding real time functionality to your web apps using ASP.NET Core SignalR.  

It’s time to get serious about improving your programming skills. Let’s do it!

That’s an easy career improvement goal to give oneself, but “become a kick-$!! programmer” is not a simple goal. For one thing, saying, “I want to get better” assumes that you recognize what “better” looks like. Plus, too many people aim for improvement without any sense of how to get there. 

Build Real App in Angular 10 and ASP.Net Web API

These are 2 of the hottest frameworks right now for the ‘back-end’ (Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core) and the ‘front-end’ (Google’s Angular) and are well worth spending the time to learn.
This course starts from scratch, you neither need to know Angular 1 nor Angular 2
We will start from nothing and incrementally build this property dealing application front-end using Angular 10.
And then we will connect our front-end with the Web-API until we have a fully functional Web Application that we will publish to Firebase and then on IIS.

15 Essential Free Icon Sets  

The Essential C# Snippet Source... 

Our beginner's guide to building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core is designed to provide you with the foundation you need to start building Web APIs with .NET in a collection of short, pragmatic collection of videos. Web APIs have become a critical component in almost every type of software we use today. In this introductory video series, we will walk you through the fundamental concepts you need to know to get started with building Web APIs using ASP.NET Core. We will cover topics such as routing, validation, working with data, and much more.  

Build Better Apps with .NET Aspire - Complete Beginner's Guide & Tutorial

Let's start building better apps with .NET Aspire! Find out how adding .NET Aspire to your existing apps can help them be more observable, resilient, scalable, and manageable. All in just a few lines of code enable these features and at the same time boost developer productivity with features to help you build apps faster including orchestration and service discovery. It also gives you deep insight into your application with OpenTelemetry and a developer dashboard on your local development machine or in the cloud. We will also take a look at how to deploy your projects that use .NET Aspire and how it works under the hood. Finally, we will look at how to use some of these great features in non-.NET projects such as JavaScript and Python!

Immutability comes with a lot of benefits, but sometimes it can be a bit cumbersome to deal with when you only want to update some properties. Since the object is immutable, you need to create a copy with all the existing values and the new updated one.

I will show you how Records in C# 9 will greatly simplify this