Stop writing your changelogs manually

How do you usually keep track of the changes in your projects? Do you use GitHub releases? Do you update your changelogs manually? In this article, I will explain how I handle this topic. This is just one way of doing it, feel free to stick around if you are interested in the topic 🔥

Learn Blazor WebAssembly and Web API on .NET 6 by building a shopping cart application using C#. This course also provides a guide on how to integrate a payment gateway into your Blazor WebAssembly component, so that a user is able to pay for products through your application using a debit or credit card or PayPal account.

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction
⌨️ (0:00:51) Create the Database using EF Core Code First Database Migrations
⌨️ (0:26:05) Retrieve Product Data from Database (Web API component)
⌨️ (0:30:17) Create Classes for Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
⌨️ (0:36:22) Create ProductRepository Class (Repository Design Pattern)
⌨️ (0:43:05) Create ProductController Class
⌨️ (0:51:08) Create DtoConversion Class (DTO Conversion Extension methods)
⌨️ (0:57:45) Display Product Data to User (Blazor WebAssembly Component)
⌨️ (1:39:59) Display Data for Specific Product to User (Web API and Blazor)
⌨️ (2:06:07) Add Product to Shopping Cart (Web API and Blazor)
⌨️ (2:52:40) Remove Product from Shopping Cart (Web API and Blazor)
⌨️ (3:14:03) Update the Quantity of Products in the Shopping Cart (Web API, Blazor, Blazor JavaScript Interoperability)
⌨️ (3:44:01) Update the Header Menu in Response to a Change to the State of the Shopping Cart (Creating Custom Events in Blazor)
⌨️ (4:04:48) Integration of PayPal Payment Gateway into Blazor Component
⌨️ (4:36:03) Dynamically Populate the Side-Bar Menu (Web API and Blazor)
⌨️ (5:05:44) Optimise Code for Performance (Web API and Blazor)
⌨️ (5:08:26) Use Include Extension Method in LINQ Query (Web API)
⌨️ (5:14:00) User Local Storage Functionality (Blazor)
⌨️ (5:35:42) Outro 

The Find method on DbSet uses the primary key value to attempt to find an entity tracked by the context.
If the entity is not found in the context then a query will be sent to the database to find the entity there.
Null is returned if the entity is not found in the context or in the database.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;

namespace EF_General.Models.Ex21
{
    public abstract class BaseEntity
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
    }

    public class Factor : BaseEntity
    {
        public int TotalPrice { set; get; }
    }

    public class MyContext : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<Factor> Factors { get; set; }

        public MyContext() { }
        public MyContext(bool withTracking)
        {
            if (withTracking)
                return;

            this.Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false;
            this.Configuration.LazyLoadingEnabled = false;
            this.Configuration.AutoDetectChangesEnabled = false;
        }

        public void CustomUpdate<T>(T entity) where T : BaseEntity
        {
            if (entity == null)
                throw new ArgumentException("Cannot add a null entity.");


            var entry = this.Entry<T>(entity);
            if (entry.State != EntityState.Detached)
                return;

            /*var set = this.Set<T>(); // این‌ها اضافی است
            //متد فایند اگر اینجا باشه حتما به بانک اطلاعاتی رجوع می‌کنه در حالت منقطع از زمینه و در یک حلقه به روز رسانی کارآیی مطلوبی نخواهد داشت
            T attachedEntity = set.Find(entity.Id);
            if (attachedEntity != null)
            {
                var attachedEntry = this.Entry(attachedEntity);
                attachedEntry.CurrentValues.SetValues(entity);
            }
            else
            {*/
            entry.State = EntityState.Modified;
            //}
        }
    }

    public class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<MyContext>
    {
        public Configuration()
        {
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
            AutomaticMigrationDataLossAllowed = true;
        }

        protected override void Seed(MyContext context)
        {
            if (!context.Factors.Any())
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
                {
                    context.Factors.Add(new Factor { TotalPrice = i });
                }
            }
            base.Seed(context);
        }
    }

    public class Performance
    {
        public TimeSpan ListDisabledTracking { set; get; }
        public TimeSpan ListNormal { set; get; }
        public TimeSpan DetachedEntityDisabledTracking { set; get; }
        public TimeSpan DetachedEntityNormal { set; get; }
    }

    public static class Test
    {
        public static void RunTests()
        {
            startDb();

            var results = new List<Performance>();
            var runs = 20;
            for (int i = 0; i < runs; i++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("\nRun {0}", i + 1);

                var tsListDisabledTracking = PerformanceHelper.RunActionMeasurePerformance(() => updateListTotalPriceDisabledTracking());
                var tsListNormal = PerformanceHelper.RunActionMeasurePerformance(() => updateListTotalPriceNormal());
                var tsDetachedEntityDisabledTracking = PerformanceHelper.RunActionMeasurePerformance(() => updateDetachedEntityTotalPriceDisabledTracking());
                var tsDetachedEntityNormal = PerformanceHelper.RunActionMeasurePerformance(() => updateDetachedEntityTotalPriceNormal());
                results.Add(new Performance
                {
                    ListDisabledTracking = tsListDisabledTracking,
                    ListNormal = tsListNormal,
                    DetachedEntityDisabledTracking = tsDetachedEntityDisabledTracking,
                    DetachedEntityNormal = tsDetachedEntityNormal
                });
            }

            var detachedEntityDisabledTrackingAvg = results.Average(x => x.DetachedEntityDisabledTracking.TotalMilliseconds);
            Console.WriteLine("detachedEntityDisabledTrackingAvg: {0} ms.", detachedEntityDisabledTrackingAvg);

            var detachedEntityNormalAvg = results.Average(x => x.DetachedEntityNormal.TotalMilliseconds);
            Console.WriteLine("detachedEntityNormalAvg: {0} ms.", detachedEntityNormalAvg);

            var listDisabledTrackingAvg = results.Average(x => x.ListDisabledTracking.TotalMilliseconds);
            Console.WriteLine("listDisabledTrackingAvg: {0} ms.", listDisabledTrackingAvg);

            var listNormalAvg = results.Average(x => x.ListNormal.TotalMilliseconds);
            Console.WriteLine("listNormalAvg: {0} ms.", listNormalAvg);
        }

        private static void updateDetachedEntityTotalPriceNormal()
        {
            using (var context = new MyContext(withTracking: true))
            {
                var detachedEntity = new Factor { Id = 1, TotalPrice = 10 };

                var attachedEntity = context.Factors.Find(detachedEntity.Id);
                if (attachedEntity != null)
                {
                    attachedEntity.TotalPrice = 100;

                    context.SaveChanges();
                }
            }
        }

        private static void updateDetachedEntityTotalPriceDisabledTracking()
        {
            using (var context = new MyContext(withTracking: false))
            {
                var detachedEntity = new Factor { Id = 2, TotalPrice = 10 };
                detachedEntity.TotalPrice = 200;

                context.CustomUpdate(detachedEntity); // custom update with change tracking disabled.
                context.SaveChanges();
            }
        }

        private static void updateListTotalPriceNormal()
        {
            using (var context = new MyContext(withTracking: true))
            {
                foreach (var item in context.Factors)
                {
                    item.TotalPrice += 10; // normal update with change tracking enabled.
                }
                context.SaveChanges();
            }
        }

        private static void updateListTotalPriceDisabledTracking()
        {
            using (var context = new MyContext(withTracking: false))
            {
                foreach (var item in context.Factors)
                {
                    item.TotalPrice += 10;
                    //نیازی به این دو سطر نیست
                    //context.ChangeTracker.DetectChanges();  // هربار باید محاسبه صورت گیرد در غیراینصورت وضعیت تغییر نیافته گزارش می‌شود
                    //context.CustomUpdate(item); // custom update with change tracking disabled.
                }
                context.ChangeTracker.DetectChanges();  // در غیراینصورت وضعیت تغییر نیافته گزارش می‌شود
                context.SaveChanges();
            }
        }

        private static void startDb()
        {
            Database.SetInitializer(new MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion<MyContext, Configuration>());
            // Forces initialization of database on model changes.
            using (var context = new MyContext())
            {
                context.Database.Initialize(force: true);
            }
        }
    }

    public class PerformanceHelper
    {
        public static TimeSpan RunActionMeasurePerformance(Action action)
        {
            var stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
            stopwatch.Start();

            action();

            stopwatch.Stop();
            return stopwatch.Elapsed;
        }
    }
}

 detachedEntityDisabledTrackingAvg: 22.32089 ms.
detachedEntityNormalAvg: 54.546815 ms.
listDisabledTrackingAvg: 413.615445 ms.
listNormalAvg: 393.194625 ms.

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background-clip is one of those properties I've known about for years, but rarely used. Maybe just a couple of times as part of a solution to a Stack Overflow question. Until last year, when I started creating my huge collection of sliders. Some of the designs I chose to reproduce were a bit more complex and I only had one element available per slider, which happened to be an input element, meaning that I couldn't even use pseudo-elements on it. Even though that does work in certain browsers, the fact that it works is actually a bug and I didn't want to rely on that. All this meant I ended up using backgrounds, borders, and shadows a lot. I also learned a lot from doing that and this article shares some of those lessons.  

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