• Custom Membership Providers 
• Codefirstmembership
• EFmembership
• ...

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();

//debug

/optimize­ 
/debug:full

//=======================

//Release

/optimize+
/debug:pdbonly

if (numberOfCPUs > 1) {
...
}

 >ng g m UploadFile -m app.module --routing

 >ng g c UploadFile/UploadFileSimple

 >ng g cl UploadFile/Ticket

export class Ticket {
  constructor(public description: string = "") {}
}

import { Ticket } from "./../ticket";

export class UploadFileSimpleComponent implements OnInit {
  model = new Ticket();

<div class="container">
  <h3>Support Form</h3>
  <form #form="ngForm" (submit)="submitForm(form)" novalidate>
    <div class="form-group" [class.has-error]="description.invalid && description.touched">
      <label class="control-label">Description</label>
      <input #description="ngModel" required type="text" class="form-control"
        name="description" [(ngModel)]="model.description">
      <div *ngIf="description.invalid && description.touched">
        <div class="alert alert-danger"  *ngIf="description.errors.required">
          description is required.
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
      <label class="control-label">Screenshot(s)</label>
      <input #screenshotInput required type="file" multiple (change)="fileChange($event)"
        class="form-control" name="screenshot">
    </div>

    <button class="btn btn-primary" [disabled]="form.invalid" type="submit">Ok</button>
  </form>
</div>

 (change)="fileChange($event)"

fileChange(event) {
    const filesList: FileList = event.target.files;
    console.log("fileChange() -> filesList", filesList);
}

 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\extensions\node_modules\typescript\lib\lib.dom.d.ts

{
    "lib": [
      "es2016",
      "dom"
    ]
  }
}

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild, ElementRef } from "@angular/core";

export class UploadFileSimpleComponent implements OnInit {
  @ViewChild("screenshotInput") screenshotInput: ElementRef;

  submitForm(form: NgForm) {
    const fileInput: HTMLInputElement = this.screenshotInput.nativeElement;
    console.log("fileInput.files", fileInput.files);
  }

 >ng g s UploadFile/UploadFileSimple -m upload-file.module

import { Http, RequestOptions, Response, Headers } from "@angular/http";
import { Injectable } from "@angular/core";
import { Observable } from "rxjs/Observable";
import "rxjs/add/operator/do";
import "rxjs/add/operator/catch";
import "rxjs/add/observable/throw";
import "rxjs/add/operator/map";
import "rxjs/add/observable/of";

import { Ticket } from "./ticket";

@Injectable()
export class UploadFileSimpleService {
  private baseUrl = "api/SimpleUpload";

  constructor(private http: Http) {}

  private extractData(res: Response) {
    const body = res.json();
    return body || {};
  }

  private handleError(error: Response): Observable<any> {
    console.error("observable error: ", error);
    return Observable.throw(error.statusText);
  }

  postTicket(ticket: Ticket, filesList: FileList): Observable<any> {
    if (!filesList || filesList.length === 0) {
      return Observable.throw("Please select a file.");
    }

    const formData: FormData = new FormData();

    for (const key in ticket) {
      if (ticket.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
        formData.append(key, ticket[key]);
      }
    }

    for (let i = 0; i < filesList.length; i++) {
      formData.append(filesList[i].name, filesList[i]);
    }

    const headers = new Headers();
    headers.append("Accept", "application/json");
    const options = new RequestOptions({ headers: headers });

    return this.http
      .post(`${this.baseUrl}/SaveTicket`, formData, options)
      .map(this.extractData)
      .catch(this.handleError);
  }
}

  postTicket(ticket: Ticket, filesList: FileList): Observable<any> {
    const formData: FormData = new FormData();

    for (const key in ticket) {
      if (ticket.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
        formData.append(key, ticket[key]);
      }
    }

    for (let i = 0; i < filesList.length; i++) {
      formData.append(filesList[i].name, filesList[i]);
    }

    const headers = new Headers();
    headers.append("Accept", "application/json");
    const options = new RequestOptions({ headers: headers });

    return this.http
      .post(`${this.baseUrl}/SaveTicket`, formData, options)
      .map(this.extractData)
      .catch(this.handleError);

import { UploadFileSimpleService } from "./../upload-file-simple.service";

export class UploadFileSimpleComponent implements OnInit {
  constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileSimpleService  ) {}

  submitForm(form: NgForm) {
    const fileInput: HTMLInputElement = this.screenshotInput.nativeElement;
    console.log("fileInput.files", fileInput.files);

    this.uploadService
      .postTicket(this.model, fileInput.files)
      .subscribe(data => {
        console.log("success: ", data);
      });
  }

namespace AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Models
{
    public class Ticket
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
        public string Description { set; get; }
    }
}

using System.IO;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Models;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;

namespace AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    public class SimpleUploadController : Controller
    {
        private readonly IHostingEnvironment _environment;
        public SimpleUploadController(IHostingEnvironment environment)
        {
            _environment = environment;
        }

        [HttpPost("[action]")]
        public async Task<IActionResult> SaveTicket(Ticket ticket)
        {
            //TODO: save the ticket ... get id
            ticket.Id = 1001;

            var uploadsRootFolder = Path.Combine(_environment.WebRootPath, "uploads");
            if (!Directory.Exists(uploadsRootFolder))
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory(uploadsRootFolder);
            }

            var files = Request.Form.Files;
            foreach (var file in files)
            {
                //TODO: do security checks ...!

                if (file == null || file.Length == 0)
                {
                    continue;
                }

                var filePath = Path.Combine(uploadsRootFolder, file.FileName);
                using (var fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Create))
                {
                    await file.CopyToAsync(fileStream).ConfigureAwait(false);
                }
            }

            return Created("", ticket);
        }
    }
}

 SaveTicket(Ticket ticket)

 formData.append(filesList[i].name, filesList[i]);

var files = Request.Form.Files;
foreach (var file in files)

public class IdentityUser<TKey> where TKey : IEquatable<TKey>
{
   [PersonalData]
   public virtual TKey Id { get; set; }

var personalData = new Dictionary<string, string>();
var personalDataProps = typeof(TUser).GetProperties().Where(
    prop => Attribute.IsDefined(prop, typeof(PersonalDataAttribute)));
foreach (var p in personalDataProps)
{
    personalData.Add(p.Name, p.GetValue(user)?.ToString() ?? "null");
}

Response.Headers.Add("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=PersonalData.json");
return new FileContentResult(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(personalData)), "text/json");

var user = await _userManager.GetUserAsync(User);
if (user == null)
{
    return NotFound($"Unable to load user with ID '{_userManager.GetUserId(User)}'.");
}

RequirePassword = await _userManager.HasPasswordAsync(user);
if (RequirePassword)
{
    if (!await _userManager.CheckPasswordAsync(user, Input.Password))
    {
        ModelState.AddModelError(string.Empty, "Password not correct.");
        return Page();
    }
}

var result = await _userManager.DeleteAsync(user);

await _signInManager.SignOutAsync();

public static string FixGmailDots(string email)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(email))
        return string.Empty;
 
    email = email.ToLowerInvariant().Trim();
    var emailParts = email.Split('@');
    var name = emailParts[0].Replace(".", string.Empty).Replace("+", string.Empty);
    var emailDomain = emailParts[1];
 
    string[] domainsAllowedDots =
    {
        "gmail.com",
        "facebook.com"
    };
 
    var isFromDomainsAllowedDots = domainsAllowedDots.Any(domain => emailDomain.Equals(domain));
    return !isFromDomainsAllowedDots ? email : string.Format("{0}@{1}", name, emailDomain);
}

 friendlyName = friendlyName.ApplyCorrectYeKe().RemoveDiacritics().CleanUnderLines().RemovePunctuation();
var trimmedFriendlyName = friendlyName.Trim().Replace(" ", "");

public static string CleanUnderLines(string text)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(text))
        return string.Empty;
 
    const char chr1600 = (char)1600; //ـ=1600
    const char chr8204 = (char)8204; //‌=8204
 
    return text.Replace(chr1600.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture), "")
               .Replace(chr8204.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture), "");
}

 public static string RemovePunctuation(string text)
{
 return string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(text) ? string.Empty : new string(text.Where(c => !char.IsPunctuation(c)).ToArray());
}

<#@ template debug="true" hostspecific="false" language="C#" #>
<#@ output extension=".txt"  #>

<#@ import namespace="System.Diagnostics" #>

Report In : <#= DateTime.Now #>

<#

Process[] Procs = Process.GetProcesses();
    for (int i = 0; i < Procs.Length; i++)
    {
        string Pstr = Procs[i].ProcessName + "  -|-  " + Procs[i].Id + Environment.NewLine ;
 #><#= Pstr #><#
    }

#>