There’s a ton of small bug fixes in this release, quite a few enhancements and a few larger new features. Configuration performance went up quite a bit, and I’ve laid the groundwork to make in-memory mapping a lot faster in the future. LINQ projection has gotten to the point where you can do anything that the major query providers support.

Table of Contents

Introduction to MongoDB

Connecting to MongoDB

Creating and Deleting the Database

Database Collection

Collection Data

Finding and Querying Data

Binary and Image Collection Data

Embedded Document

LINQ

Working with MongoDB Shell

MongoDB and Windows Forms

MongoDB and ASP.NET

MongoDB and ASP.NET MVC

Export and Import Database

Back up and Restore 

 Today Doug Mahugh, Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Open Technologies Inc., announced the release of an Open XML SDK as an open source project through the MS Open Tech hub. Although the SDK has been available since 2007, this release includes full source code available under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub, as well as the project will continue to grow under the stewardship of the .NET Foundation

The Firebase Admin .NET SDK enables access to Firebase services from privileged environments (such as servers or cloud) in .NET.

Supported Frameworks:

• .NET Framework 4.5+
• netstandard 1.5, providing .NET Core support 

Rider 2022.3: Support for .NET 7 SDK, the Latest From C#11, Major Performance Improvements, and More! 

EtwProfiler is the new diagnoser for BenchmarkDotNet that I have just finished. It’s going to be released as part of 0.11.2. Soon! It allows to profile the benchmarked .NET code on Windows and exports the data to a trace file which can be opened with PerfView or Windows Performance Analyzer. 

var members = context.Members
                                    .Select(member => new { Name = member.Surname + ", " + member.FirstName })
                                    .ToList();

var facilities = context.Facilities
                                        .Where(facility => facility.Name.StartsWith("Tennis"))
                                        .ToList();

var members = context.Members
                                    .Select(member => new { member.MemId, member.Telephone })
                                    .Where(member => member.Telephone.Contains("(")
                                                    && member.Telephone.Contains(")"))
                                    .ToList();

members = context.Members
                                    .Select(member => new { member.MemId, member.Telephone })
                                    .Where(member => EF.Functions.Like(member.Telephone, "%[()]%"))
                                    .ToList();

SELECT   CONVERT (NVARCHAR (MAX), [m].[ZipCode]) AS [Zip]
FROM     [Members] AS [m]
ORDER BY CONVERT (NVARCHAR (MAX), [m].[ZipCode]);

var members = context.Members
                                    .Select(member => new { ZipCode = Convert.ToString(member.ZipCode) })
                                    .OrderBy(m => m.ZipCode)
                                    .ToList();
// Now using LINQ to Objects
members = members.Select(member => new { ZipCode = member.ZipCode.PadLeft(5, '0') })
                                                    .OrderBy(m => m.ZipCode)
                                                    .ToList();

namespace EFCorePgExercises.Utils
{
    public static class SqlDbFunctionsExtensions
    {
        public static string SqlReplicate(string expression, int count)
            => throw new InvalidOperationException($"{nameof(SqlReplicate)} method cannot be called from the client side.");

        private static readonly MethodInfo _sqlReplicateMethodInfo = typeof(SqlDbFunctionsExtensions)
            .GetRuntimeMethod(
                nameof(SqlDbFunctionsExtensions.SqlReplicate),
                new[] { typeof(string), typeof(int) }
            );


        public static void AddCustomSqlFunctions(this ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.HasDbFunction(_sqlReplicateMethodInfo)
                .HasTranslation(args =>
                {
                    return SqlFunctionExpression.Create("REPLICATE",
                        args,
                        _sqlReplicateMethodInfo.ReturnType,
                        typeMapping: null);
                });
        }
    }
}

namespace EFCorePgExercises.DataLayer
{
    public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
    {
         // ...

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
         // ...
            modelBuilder.AddCustomSqlFunctions();
         // ...
        }
    }
}

var newMembers = context.Members
                                        .Select(member => new
                                        {
                                            ZipCode =
                                                SqlDbFunctionsExtensions.SqlReplicate(
                                                    "0", 5 - Convert.ToString(member.ZipCode).Length)
                                                + member.ZipCode
                                        })
                        .OrderBy(m => m.ZipCode)
                        .ToList();

var members = context.Members
                                    .Select(member => new { Letter = member.Surname.Substring(0, 1) })
                                    .GroupBy(m => m.Letter)
                                    .Select(g => new
                                    {
                                        Letter = g.Key,
                                        Count = g.Count()
                                    })
                                    .OrderBy(r => r.Letter)
                                    .ToList();

select memid, regexp_replace(telephone, '[^0-9]', '', 'g') as telephone
from members
order by memid;

var members = context.Members
                                .Select(member => new
                                {
                                    member.MemId,
                                    Telephone = member.Telephone.Replace("-", "")
                                                        .Replace("(", "")
                                                        .Replace(")", "")
                                                        .Replace(" ", "")
                                })
                                .OrderBy(r => r.MemId)
                                .ToList();

.NET 8 Preview 3 is now available. It includes changes to build paths, workloads, Microsoft.Extensions, and containers. It also includes performance improvements in the JIT, for Arm64, and dynamic PGO. If you missed the March preview, you may want to read the Preview 2 post. 

Themes of .NET - .NET 8 road map