In Defense of Lazy Loading

I don’t know how this happened but for the last couple years (at least), whenever I read an author who writes about ORMs, I often see a sentiment like this: “ORMs are fine, just make sure you disable this pesky feature called Lazy Loading”.

It’s like this feature is not even needed and only brings confusion and performance issues to everyone who chooses to use it. Well, as you may guess from the title of this article, I disagree with this point of view completely. 

<input type="text" [(ngModel)]="myModel" (blur)="onBlurMethod()">

export class AppComponent {
    searchForm: ControlGroup;
    results: Observable<any[]>;

    constructor(private http: Http) {
        let searchField = new Control();
        this.searchForm = new ControlGroup({searchField});
        this.results = searchField.valueChanges
                  .debounceTime(500)
                  .switchMap((val:string) => {
                         return this.search(val);
                  });
    }

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.1:

• This release includes a fix that reduces memory usage and GC pressure during solution load.

Microsoft Security Advisory for .NET Core Denial Of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2018-0765

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET Core and .NET native version 2.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability.

Microsoft is aware of a denial of service vulnerability that exists when .NET Framework and .NET Core improperly process XML documents. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against a .NET Framework, .NET Core, or .NET native application.

The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET native applications handle XML document processing.

If your application is an ASP.NET Core application, developers are also advised to update to ASP.NET Core 2.0.8. 

using System.Web.Http;

namespace MvcApplication1.Controllers
{
    public class ValuesController : ApiController        
    {
        // GET api/values/5
        public string Get(int id)                         
        {
            return string.Format("You entered: {0}", id);
        }
    }
}

namespace HelloWebAPI.Models
{
    public class Product
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Category { get; set; }
        public decimal Price { get; set; }
    }
}

namespace HelloWebAPI.Controllers
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Net;
    using System.Net.Http;
    using System.Web.Http;
    using HelloWebAPI.Models;

    public class ProductsController : ApiController
    {

        Product[] products = new Product[] 
        { 
            new Product { Id = 1, Name = "Tomato Soup", Category = "Groceries", Price = 1.39M }, 
            new Product { Id = 2, Name = "Yo-yo", Category = "Toys", Price = 3.75M }, 
            new Product { Id = 3, Name = "Hammer", Category = "Hardware", Price = 16.99M } 
        };

        public IEnumerable<Product> GetAllProducts()
        {
            return products;
        }

        public Product GetProductById(int id)
        {
            var product = products.FirstOrDefault((p) => p.Id == id);
            if (product == null)
            {
                var resp = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.NotFound);
                throw new HttpResponseException(resp);
            }
            return product;
        }

        public IEnumerable<Product> GetProductsByCategory(string category)
        {
            return products.Where(
                (p) => string.Equals(p.Category, category, 
                    StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
        }
    }
}

Learn ASP.NET Core MVC (.NET 8) - The Complete Guide

In this Complete Guide course, we will learn MVC (Model-View-Controller) with .NET 8.

When we are working with .NET Core Web Applications,  there are two common ways of building website.
1. MVC (Model-View-Controller) Web Application
2. Razor Pages Web Application

In this course we will learn the basics of .NET Core (.NET 8) and then learn basics of MVC and Razor Pages as we enhance MVC Application to a more complex final project!.

Topics Covered
- Fundamentals of .NET Core
- MVC Application
- Razor Pages
- Entity Framework Core
- Repository Pattern
- ViewBag
- ViewData
- TempData
- Taostr and sweet alerts in .NET Core
- Datatables in .NET Core
- Assignments
- Errors and how to solve them! 

Learn Blazor Hybrid - Full Course for Beginners | Build cross-platform apps in C#

Let's start our journey together to build beautiful native cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows with Blazor Hybrid, .NET MAUI, C#, and Visual Studio! In this full workshop, I will walk you through everything you need to know about .NET MAUI and building your very first app. You will learn the basics including how to build user interfaces with Razor, how to show data from the internet, how to navigate between pages and combine .NET MAUI pages with Razor pages, access platform features like geolocation, and theme your app for light theme and dark theme. This course has everything you need to learn the basics and set you up for success when building apps with Blazor Hybrid!

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro to the Blazor Hybrid Workshop

00:04:28 - What is Blazor Hybrid & How to Install

00:06:51 - First Blazor Hybrid App & Architecture

00:21:40 - Get Code to Build Your First Blazor Hybrid App

00:26:38 - Blazor Hybrid Project Walkthrough

00:39:22 - Start to Build First Blazor Hybrid App

01:03:10 - Event Handling, Data Binding and Parameters (Slides)

01:09:00 - Add Monkey Data & Fluent UI Blazor Components

01:32:08 - Navigation, NavigationManager, .NET MAUI Pages (Slides)

01:39:19 - Navigation with NavigationManager

01:52:39 - Navigation with NavLinks

01:57:21 - Add .NET MAUI Pages & Components

02:21:11 - Access Platform Functionality (Slides)

02:27:57 - Check Network Connectivity

02:38:04 - Get User Location with Geolocation

02:49:09 - Integration with Other Apps

02:57:42 - App Theming, Light Theme, Dark Theme (Slides)

03:05:36 - JavaScript Interoperability with IJSRuntime

03:20:48 - Theming FluentUI Blazor Components

03:26:05 - Style Status Bar with .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

03:39:00 - .NET MAUI Light & Dark Theme with AppThemeBinding

03:42:58 - Sharing State & Creating Reusable Components (Slides)

03:47:27 - Implement Shared State Blazor Hybrid & .NET MAUI

04:02:47 - Create Reusable Razor Components

04:08:31 - CONGRATULATIONS!

The Data Engineering Cookbook

I get asked super often how to become a Data Engineer. That's why I decided to start this cookbook with all the topics you need to look into.