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What Are the Most Important Elements of Databases? 

The fourth preview of Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 8 is available on NuGet today!

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EF Core 8, or just EF8, is the successor to EF Core 7, and is scheduled for release in November 2023, at the same time as .NET 8.

EF8 previews currently target .NET 6, and can therefore be used with either .NET 6 (LTS) or .NET 7. This will likely be updated to .NET 8 as we near release.

EF8 will align with .NET 8 as a long-term support (LTS) release. See the .NET support policy for more information. 

Data structure is a particular way of organizing data in a computer. The developer must choose the appropriate data structure for better performance. If the developer chooses bad data structure, the system does not perform well. This article explains the each data structure advantages and usage. 

 #region Properties

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the product variant identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int ProductVariantId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the product identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int ProductId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the name
        /// </summary>
        public string Name { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the SKU
        /// </summary>
        public string SKU { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the description
        /// </summary>
        public string Description { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the admin comment
        /// </summary>
        public string AdminComment { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the manufacturer part number
        /// </summary>
        public string ManufacturerPartNumber { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant is gift card
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsGiftCard { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the gift card type
        /// </summary>
        public int GiftCardType { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant is download
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsDownload { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the download identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int DownloadId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether this downloadable product can be downloaded unlimited number of times
        /// </summary>
        public bool UnlimitedDownloads { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the maximum number of downloads
        /// </summary>
        public int MaxNumberOfDownloads { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the number of days during customers keeps access to the file.
        /// </summary>
        public int? DownloadExpirationDays { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the download activation type
        /// </summary>
        public int DownloadActivationType { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant has a sample download file
        /// </summary>
        public bool HasSampleDownload { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the sample download identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int SampleDownloadId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product has user agreement
        /// </summary>
        public bool HasUserAgreement { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the text of license agreement
        /// </summary>
        public string UserAgreementText { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant is recurring
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsRecurring { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the cycle length
        /// </summary>
        public int CycleLength { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the cycle period
        /// </summary>
        public int CyclePeriod { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the total cycles
        /// </summary>
        public int TotalCycles { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the entity is ship enabled
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsShipEnabled { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the entity is free shipping
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsFreeShipping { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the additional shipping charge
        /// </summary>
        public decimal AdditionalShippingCharge { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the product variant is marked as tax exempt
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsTaxExempt { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the tax category identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int TaxCategoryId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating how to manage inventory
        /// </summary>
        public int ManageInventory { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the stock quantity
        /// </summary>
        public int StockQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to display stock availability
        /// </summary>
        public bool DisplayStockAvailability { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to display stock quantity
        /// </summary>
        public bool DisplayStockQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the minimum stock quantity
        /// </summary>
        public int MinStockQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the low stock activity identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int LowStockActivityId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the quantity when admin should be notified
        /// </summary>
        public int NotifyAdminForQuantityBelow { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to allow orders when out of stock
        /// </summary>
        public int Backorders { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the order minimum quantity
        /// </summary>
        public int OrderMinimumQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the order maximum quantity
        /// </summary>
        public int OrderMaximumQuantity { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the warehouse identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int WarehouseId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to disable buy button
        /// </summary>
        public bool DisableBuyButton { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether to show "Call for Pricing" or "Call for quote" instead of price
        /// </summary>
        public bool CallForPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the price
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Price { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the old price
        /// </summary>
        public decimal OldPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the product cost
        /// </summary>
        public decimal ProductCost { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether a customer enters price
        /// </summary>
        public bool CustomerEntersPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the minimum price entered by a customer
        /// </summary>
        public decimal MinimumCustomerEnteredPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the maximum price entered by a customer
        /// </summary>
        public decimal MaximumCustomerEnteredPrice { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the weight
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Weight { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the length
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Length { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the width
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Width { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the height
        /// </summary>
        public decimal Height { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the picture identifier
        /// </summary>
        public int PictureId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the available start date and time
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime? AvailableStartDateTime { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the shipped end date and time
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime? AvailableEndDateTime { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the entity is published
        /// </summary>
        public bool Published { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the entity has been deleted
        /// </summary>
        public bool Deleted { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the display order
        /// </summary>
        public int DisplayOrder { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the date and time of instance creation
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime CreatedOn { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the date and time of instance update
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime UpdatedOn { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets CouponCreated
        /// </summary>
        public bool? CouponetCreated { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the date and time of CouponCreated
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime? CouponetCreatedOn { get; set; }
        #endregion

Domain Driven Design: The Good Parts

The greenfield project started out so promising. Instead of devolving into big ball of mud, the team decided to apply domain-driven design principles. Ubiquitous language, proper boundaries, encapsulation, it all made sense.
But along the way, something went completely and utterly wrong. It started with arguments on the proper way of implementing aggregates and entities. Arguments began over project and folder structure. Someone read a blog post that repositories are evil, and ORMs the devil incarnate. Another read that relational databases are last century, we need to store everything as a stream of events. Then came the actor model and frameworks that sounded like someone clearing their throat. Instead of a nice, clean architecture, the team chased the next new approach without ever actually shipping anything.
Beyond the endless technical arguments it causes, domain-driven design can actually produce great software. We have to look past the hype into the true value of DDD, what it can bring to our organizations and how it can enable us to build quality systems. With the advent of microservices, DDD is more important than ever - but only if we can get to the good parts. 

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Since May 2022, Google decided to drop support for “Less Secure Apps”. This means if your app is using SMTP, it will not work anymore. If you are looking for an easy fix to send e-mails from your .NET code again, keep reading! 

Besides all the other improvements in EF Core 3.0, preview 9 includes fixes for more than 100 issues that we resolved since Preview 8. 

Ionic has been around for two years now. It is a great set of tools for developing hybrid applications based on AngularJS. Ionic is extremely popular at the moment, with more than one million applications built and a growing community of thousands of developers.