<link href="Content/kendo.dataviz.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="Content/kendo.dataviz.default.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

<div id="chart"></div>

<div id="chart" style="width: 400px; height: 600px"></div>

$("#chart").kendoChart();

$("#chart").kendoChart({
    title: {
         text: "چارت آزمایشی"
    }
});

$("#chart").kendoChart({
    title: {
         text: "عنوان چارت"
    },
    series: [
         { name: "داده‌های چارت", data: [200, 450, 300, 125] }
    ]
});

$("#chart").kendoChart({
                title: {
                    text: "عنوان چارت"
                },
                series: [
                     {
                         name: "داده‌های چارت",
                         data: [200, 450, 300, 125]
                     }
                ],
                categoryAxis: {
                    categories: [2000, 2001, 2002, 2003]
                }
            });

public class ProductsController : ApiController
    {
        public IEnumerable<ProductViewModel> Get()
        {
            var products = _productService.GetAllProducts();
            var query = products.GroupBy(p => p.Name).Select(p => new ProductViewModel
            {
                Value = p.Key,
                Count = p.Count()
            });
            return query;
        }
    }

    public class ProductViewModel
    {
        public string Value { get; set; }
        public int Count { get; set; }
    }

var productsDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
                transport: {
                    read: {
                        url: "api/products",
                        dataType: "json",
                        contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
                        type: 'GET'
                    }
                },
                error: function (e) {
                    alert(e.errorThrown.stack);
                },
                pageSize: 5,
                sort: { field: "Id", dir: "desc" }
            });

            $("#chart").kendoChart({
                title: {
                    text: "عنوان چارت"
                },
                dataSource: productsDataSource,
                series: [
                    {
                        field: "Count",
                        categoryField: "Value",
                        aggregate: "sum"
                    }
                ]
            });

(function($) {
    $.fn.ShowChart = function(options) {
        var defaults = {
            url: '/',
            text: 'نمودار دایره ایی',
            theme: 'blueOpal',
            font: '13px bbc-nassim-bold',
            legendPosition: 'left',
            seriesField: 'Count',
            seriesCategoryField: 'Value',
            titlePosition: 'top',
            chartWidth: 400,
            chartHeight: 400
        };
        var options = $.extend(defaults, options);
        return this.each(function() {
            var chartDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
                transport: {
                    read: {
                        url: options.url,
                        dataType: "json",
                        contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
                        type: 'GET'
                    }
                },
                error: function (e) {
                    // handle error
                }
            });
            $(this).kendoChart({
                chartArea: {
                    height: options.chartHeight
                },
                theme: options.theme,
                title: {
                    text: options.text,
                    font: options.font,
                    position: options.titlePosition
                },
                legend: {
                    position: options.legendPosition,
                    labels: {
                        font: options.font
                    }
                },
                seriesDefaults: {
                    labels: {
                        visible: false,
                        format: "{0}%"
                    }
                },
                dataSource: chartDataSource,
                series: [
                    {
                        type: "pie",
                        field: options.seriesField,
                        categoryField: options.seriesCategoryField,
                        aggregate: "sum",
                    }
                ],
                tooltip: {
                    visible: true,
                    template: "${category}: ${value}",
                    font: options.font
                }
            });
            
        });
    };
})(jQuery);

$('#chart').ShowChart({
                        url: "/Report/ByUnit",
                        legendPosition: "bottom"
});

// Create a graphics object for drawing.
Graphics gfxCaptchaImage = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap);

gfxCaptchaImage.PageUnit = GraphicsUnit.Pixel;
gfxCaptchaImage.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
gfxCaptchaImage.Clear(Color.White);

// Create a Random Number from 1000 to 9999
int salt = CaptchaHelpers.CreateSalt();

public int CreateSalt()
{
   Random random = new Random();
   return random.Next(1000, 9999);
}

HttpContext.Current.Session["captchastring"] = salt;

string randomString = (salt).NumberToText(Language.Persian);

// Set up the text format.
var format = new StringFormat();
int faLCID = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fa-IR").LCID;
format.SetDigitSubstitution(faLCID, StringDigitSubstitute.National);
format.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near;
format.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Near;
format.FormatFlags = StringFormatFlags.DirectionRightToLeft;

// Font of Captcha and its size
Font font = new Font("Tahoma", 10);

// Create a path for text 
GraphicsPath path = new GraphicsPath();

path.AddString(randomString, 
                font.FontFamily, 
                (int)font.Style, 
                (gfxCaptchaImage.DpiY * font.SizeInPoints / 72), 
                new Rectangle(0, 0, width, height), format);

gfxCaptchaImage.DrawPath(Pens.Navy, path);

//-- using a sin ware distort the image
int distortion = random.Next(-10, 10);
using (Bitmap copy = (Bitmap)bitmap.Clone())
{
          for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
          {
              for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
              {
                  int newX = (int)(x + (distortion * Math.Sin(Math.PI * y / 64.0)));
                  int newY = (int)(y + (distortion * Math.Cos(Math.PI * x / 64.0)));
                  if (newX < 0 || newX >= width) newX = 0;
                 if (newY < 0 || newY >= height) newY = 0;
                 bitmap.SetPixel(x, y, copy.GetPixel(newX, newY));
              }
         }
 }

//-- Draw the graphic to the bitmap
gfxCaptchaImage.DrawImage(bitmap, new Point(0, 0));

gfxCaptchaImage.Flush();

HttpResponseBase response = context.HttpContext.Response;
response.ContentType = "image/jpeg";
bitmap.Save(response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);

// Clean up.
font.Dispose();
gfxCaptchaImage.Dispose();
bitmap.Dispose();

public CaptchaImageResult CaptchaImage()
{
     return new CaptchaImageResult();
}

<img src="@Url.Action("CaptchaImage")"/>

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(LogOnModel model)
{
      if (!ModelState.IsValid) return View(model);

      if (model.CaptchaInputText == Session["captchastring"].ToString()) 
             TempData["message"] = "تصویر امنتی را صحیح وارد کرده اید";
      else 
             TempData["message"] = "تصویر امنیتی را اشتباه وارد کرده اید";

      return View();
}

public class ModelIdViewModel
{
   public string Id { set; get; }
}

public async Task<IActionResult> RenderRole([FromBody]ModelIdViewModel model)

data: JSON.stringify({ "id": 1 }),
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",

public async Task<IActionResult> RenderRole([FromBody]ModelIdViewModel model)
{
   if (!ModelState.IsValid)
   {
      return BadRequest(ModelState);
   }

 {"$.id":["The JSON value could not be converted to System.String. Path: $.id | LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 7."]}

public class ModelIdViewModel
{
   public int Id { set; get; }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using Lucene.Net.Analysis.Standard;
using Lucene.Net.Documents;
using Lucene.Net.Index;
using Lucene.Net.Store;

namespace ShaahnamehAnalysis
{
    public static class CreateIndex
    {
        static readonly Lucene.Net.Util.Version _version = Lucene.Net.Util.Version.LUCENE_CURRENT;

        static HashSet<string> getStopWords()
        {
            var result = new HashSet<string>();
            var stopWords = new[]
            {
                "به",
                "با",
                "از",
                "تا",
                "و",
                "است",
                "هست",
                "هستم",
                "هستیم",
                "هستید",
                "هستند",
                "نیست",
                "نیستم",
                "نیستیم",
                "نیستند",
                "اما",
                "یا",
                "این",
                "آن",
                "اینجا",
                "آنجا",
                "بود",
                "باد",
                "برای",
                "که",
                "دارم",
                "داری",
                "دارد",
                "داریم",
                "دارید",
                "دارند",
                "چند",
                "را",
                "ها",
                "های",
                "می",
                "هم",
                "در",
                "باشم",
                "باشی",
                "باشد",
                "باشیم",
                "باشید",
                "باشند",
                "اگر",
                "مگر",
                "بجز",
                "جز",
                "الا",
                "اینکه",
                "چرا",
                "کی",
                "چه",
                "چطور",
                "چی",
                "چیست",
                "آیا",
                "چنین",
                "اینچنین",
                "نخست",
                "اول",
                "آخر",
                "انتها",
                "صد",
                "هزار",
                "میلیون",
                "ملیون",
                "میلیارد",
                "ملیارد",
                "یکهزار",
                "تریلیون",
                "تریلیارد",
                "میان",
                "بین",
                "زیر",
                "بیش",
                "روی",
                "ضمن",
                "همانا",
                "ای",
                "بعد",
                "پس",
                "قبل",
                "پیش",
                "هیچ",
                "همه",
                "واما",
                "شد",
                "شده",
                "شدم",
                "شدی",
                "شدیم",
                "شدند",
                "یک",
                "یکی",
                "نبود",
                "میکند",
                "میکنم",                
                "میکنیم",
                "میکنید",
                "میکنند",
                "میکنی",
                "طور",
                "اینطور",
                "آنطور",
                "هر",
                "حال",
                "مثل",
                "خواهم",
                "خواهی",
                "خواهد",
                "خواهیم",
                "خواهید",
                "خواهند",
                "داشته",
                "داشت",
                "داشتی",
                "داشتم",
                "داشتیم",
                "داشتید",
                "داشتند",
                "آنکه",
                "مورد",
                "کنید",
                "کنم",
                "کنی",
                "کنند",
                "کنیم",
                "نکنم",
                "نکنی",
                "نکند",
                "نکنیم",
                "نکنید",
                "نکنند",
                "نکن",
                "بگو",
                "نگو",
                "مگو",
                "بنابراین",
                "بدین",
                "من",
                "تو",
                "او",
                "ما",
                "شما",
                "ایشان",
                "ی",
                "ـ",
                "هایی",
                "خیلی",
                "بسیار",
                "1",
                "بر",
                "l",
                "شود",
                "کرد",
                "کرده",
                "نیز",
                "خود",
                "شوند",
                "اند",
                "داد",
                "دهد",
                "گشت",
                "ز",
                "گفت",
                "آمد",
                "اندر",
                "چون",
                "بد",
                "چو",
                "همی",
                "پر",
                "سوی",
                "دو",
                "گر",
                "بی",
                "گرد",
                "زین",
                "کس",
                "زان",
                "جای",
                "آید"
            };

            foreach (var item in stopWords)
                result.Add(item);

            return result;
        }

        public static void CreateShaahnamehIndex(string file = "shaahnameh.txt")
        {
            var directory = FSDirectory.Open(new DirectoryInfo(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\LuceneIndex"));
            var analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(_version, getStopWords());
            using (var writer = new IndexWriter(directory, analyzer, create: true, mfl: IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.UNLIMITED))
            {
                var section = string.Empty;
                foreach (var line in File.ReadAllLines(file))
                {
                    int result;
                    if (int.TryParse(line, out result))
                    {
                        var postDocument = new Document();
                        postDocument.Add(new Field("Id", result.ToString(), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED));
                        postDocument.Add(new Field("Body", section, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED, Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS));
                        writer.AddDocument(postDocument);
                        section = string.Empty;
                    }
                    else
                        section += line;
                }

                writer.Optimize();
                writer.Commit();
                writer.Close();
                directory.Close();
            }
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using Lucene.Net.Index;
using Lucene.Net.Store;

namespace ShaahnamehAnalysis
{
    [DebuggerDisplay("{Frequency}, {Text}")]
    public class Tag
    {
        public string Text { set; get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The frequency of a term is defined as the number of 
        /// documents in which a specific term appears.
        /// </summary>
        public int Frequency { set; get; }
    }

    public static class WordsCloud
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Create Words Cloud
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="threshold">every term that appears in more than x Body</param>
        public static IList<Tag> Create(int threshold = 200)
        {
            var path = Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\LuceneIndex";

            var results = new List<Tag>();
            var field = "Body";

            IndexReader indexReader = IndexReader.Open(FSDirectory.Open(path ), true);

            var termFrequency = indexReader.Terms();
            while (termFrequency.Next())
            {
                if (termFrequency.DocFreq() >= threshold && termFrequency.Term.Field == field)
                {
                    results.Add(new Tag { Text = termFrequency.Term.Text, Frequency = termFrequency.DocFreq() });
                }
            }
            return results.OrderByDescending(x => x.Frequency).ToList();
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

namespace ShaahnamehAnalysis
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            CreateIndex.CreateShaahnamehIndex();
            var wordsCloudList = WordsCloud.Create();

            var data = wordsCloudList.Select(x => x.Text + ", " + x.Frequency)
                                     .Aggregate((s1, s2) => s1 + Environment.NewLine + s2);
            var output = "ShaahnamehAnalysis.txt";
            File.WriteAllText(output, data);
            Process.Start(output);
        }
    }
}

namespace AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Models
{
    public class Product
    {
        public int ProductId { set; get; }
        public string ProductName { set; get; }
        public decimal Price { set; get; }
        public bool IsAvailable { set; get; }
    }
}

using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Models
{
    public static class ProductDataSource
    {
        private static readonly IList<Product> _cachedItems;
        static ProductDataSource()
        {
            _cachedItems = createProductsDataSource();
        }

        public static IList<Product> LatestProducts
        {
            get { return _cachedItems; }
        }

        private static IList<Product> createProductsDataSource()
        {
            var list = new List<Product>();
            for (var i = 0; i < 1500; i++)
            {
                list.Add(new Product
                {
                    ProductId = i + 1,
                    ProductName = "نام " + (i + 1),
                    IsAvailable = (i % 2 == 0),
                    Price = 1000 + i
                });
            }
            return list;
        }
    }
}

 http://localhost:5000/api/Product/GetPagedProducts?sortBy=productId&isAscending=true&page=2&pageSize=7

    public interface IPagedQueryModel
    {
        string SortBy { get; set; }
        bool IsAscending { get; set; }
        int Page { get; set; }
        int PageSize { get; set; }
    }

    public class ProductQueryViewModel : IPagedQueryModel
    {
        // ... other properties ...

        public string SortBy { get; set; }
        public bool IsAscending { get; set; }
        public int Page { get; set; }
        public int PageSize { get; set; }
    }

    public static class IQueryableExtensions
    {
        public static IQueryable<T> ApplyPaging<T>(
          this IQueryable<T> query, IPagedQueryModel model)
        {
            if (model.Page <= 0)
            {
                model.Page = 1;
            }

            if (model.PageSize <= 0)
            {
                model.PageSize = 10;
            }

            return query.Skip((model.Page - 1) * model.PageSize).Take(model.PageSize);
        }
    }

 http://localhost:5000/api/Product/GetPagedProducts?sortBy=productId&isAscending=true&page=2&pageSize=7

if(model.SortBy == "f1")
{
   query = !model.IsAscending ? query.OrderByDescending(x => x.F1) : query.OrderBy(x => x.F1);
}

namespace AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Utils
{
    public static class IQueryableExtensions
    {
        public static IQueryable<T> ApplyOrdering<T>(
          this IQueryable<T> query,
          IPagedQueryModel model,
          IDictionary<string, Expression<Func<T, object>>> columnsMap)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(model.SortBy) || !columnsMap.ContainsKey(model.SortBy))
            {
                return query;
            }

            if (model.IsAscending)
            {
                return query.OrderBy(columnsMap[model.SortBy]);
            }
            else
            {
                return query.OrderByDescending(columnsMap[model.SortBy]);
            }
        }
    }
}

var columnsMap = new Dictionary<string, Expression<Func<Product, object>>>()
            {
                ["productId"] = p => p.ProductId,
                ["productName"] = p => p.ProductName,
                ["isAvailable"] = p => p.IsAvailable,
                ["price"] = p => p.Price
            };
query = query.ApplyOrdering(queryModel, columnsMap);

using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Models
{
    public class PagedQueryResult<T>
    {
        public int TotalItems { get; set; }
        public IEnumerable<T> Items { get; set; }
    }
}

    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    public class ProductController : Controller
    {
        [HttpGet("[action]")]
        public PagedQueryResult<Product> GetPagedProducts(ProductQueryViewModel queryModel)
        {
            var pagedResult = new PagedQueryResult<Product>();

            var query = ProductDataSource.LatestProducts
                                         .AsQueryable();

            //TODO: Apply Filtering ... .where(p => p....) ...

            var columnsMap = new Dictionary<string, Expression<Func<Product, object>>>()
            {
                ["productId"] = p => p.ProductId,
                ["productName"] = p => p.ProductName,
                ["isAvailable"] = p => p.IsAvailable,
                ["price"] = p => p.Price
            };
            query = query.ApplyOrdering(queryModel, columnsMap);

            pagedResult.TotalItems = query.Count();
            query = query.ApplyPaging(queryModel);
            pagedResult.Items = query.ToList();
            return pagedResult;
        }
    }

 public PagedQueryResult<Product> GetPagedProducts(ProductQueryViewModel queryModel)

 var query = ProductDataSource.LatestProducts
  .AsQueryable();

//TODO: Apply Filtering ... .where(p => p....) ...

var columnsMap = new Dictionary<string, Expression<Func<Product, object>>>()
            {
                ["productId"] = p => p.ProductId,
                ["productName"] = p => p.ProductName,
                ["isAvailable"] = p => p.IsAvailable,
                ["price"] = p => p.Price
            };
query = query.ApplyOrdering(queryModel, columnsMap);

var pagedResult = new PagedQueryResult<Product>();
pagedResult.TotalItems = query.Count();
query = query.ApplyPaging(queryModel);
pagedResult.Items = query.ToList();
return pagedResult;

 PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression

{
    "dependencies": {
        "Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression": "1.0.0"
    }
}

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
    {
        options.MimeTypes = Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression.ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes;
    });
}

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Defaults for the ResponseCompressionMiddleware
    /// </summary>
    public class ResponseCompressionDefaults
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Default MIME types to compress responses for.
        /// </summary>
        // This list is not intended to be exhaustive, it's a baseline for the 90% case.
        public static readonly IEnumerable<string> MimeTypes = new[]
        {
            // General
            "text/plain",
            // Static files
            "text/css",
            "application/javascript",
            // MVC
            "text/html",
            "application/xml",
            "text/xml",
            "application/json",
            "text/json",
        };
    }
}

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
    options.MimeTypes = ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes.Concat(new[]
                                {
                                    "image/svg+xml",
                                    "application/font-woff2"
                                });
            });

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
  //If no compression providers are specified then GZip is used by default.
  //options.Providers.Add<GzipCompressionProvider>();

services.Configure<GzipCompressionProviderOptions>(options =>
{
  options.Level = System.IO.Compression.CompressionLevel.Optimal;
});

 options.EnableForHttps = true;

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
   app.UseResponseCompression()  // Adds the response compression to the request pipeline
   .UseStaticFiles(); // Adds the static middleware to the request pipeline  
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app,
                      IHostingEnvironment env,
                      ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
    app.UseResponseCompression()
       .UseStaticFiles(
           new StaticFileOptions
           {
               OnPrepareResponse =
                   _ => _.Context.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.CacheControl] = 
                        "public,max-age=604800" // A week in seconds
           })
       .UseMvc(routes => routes.MapRoute("default", "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}"));
}

 PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
    app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
                            .AddRedirectToHttps()
                            .AddRewrite(@"app/(\d+)", "app?id=$1", skipRemainingRules: false) // Rewrite based on a Regular expression
                            //.AddRedirectToHttps(302, 5001) // Redirect to a different port and use HTTPS
                            .AddRedirect("(.*)/$", "$1")  // remove trailing slash, Redirect using a regular expression
                            .AddRedirect(@"^section1/(.*)", "new/$1", (int)HttpStatusCode.Redirect)
                            .AddRedirect(@"^section2/(\\d+)/(.*)", "new/$1/$2", (int)HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently)
                            .AddRewrite("^feed$", "/?format=rss", skipRemainingRules: false));

 app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
.AddIISUrlRewrite(env.ContentRootFileProvider, "web.config")
.AddApacheModRewrite(env.ContentRootFileProvider, ".htaccess"));

public class RedirectWwwRule : Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite.IRule
{
    public int StatusCode { get; } = (int)HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently;
    public bool ExcludeLocalhost { get; set; } = true;
    public void ApplyRule(RewriteContext context)
    {
        var request = context.HttpContext.Request;
        var host = request.Host;
        if (host.Host.StartsWith("www", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            context.Result = RuleResult.ContinueRules;
            return;
        }
        if (ExcludeLocalhost && string.Equals(host.Host, "localhost", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            context.Result = RuleResult.ContinueRules;
            return;
        }
        string newPath = request.Scheme + "://www." + host.Value + request.PathBase + request.Path + request.QueryString;
 
        var response = context.HttpContext.Response;
        response.StatusCode = StatusCode;
        response.Headers[HeaderNames.Location] = newPath;
        context.Result = RuleResult.EndResponse; // Do not continue processing the request
    }
}

 app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions().Add(new RedirectWwwRule()));

 var options = new RewriteOptions().Add(app.ApplicationServices.GetService<RedirectWwwRule>());

public class UserFactory
{
    public User CreateUser(string email) {
        return new User(email);
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Reflection;

namespace ValueOf
{
    public class ValueOf<TValue, TThis> where TThis : ValueOf<TValue, TThis>, new()
    {
        private static readonly Func<TThis> Factory;

        /// <summary>
        /// WARNING - THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL. I may change it to do
        /// validation in a different way.
        /// Right now, override this method, and throw any exceptions you need to.
        /// Access this.Value to check the value
        /// </summary>
        protected virtual void Validate()
        {
        }

        static ValueOf()
        {
            ConstructorInfo ctor = typeof(TThis)
                .GetTypeInfo()
                .DeclaredConstructors
                .First();

            var argsExp = new Expression[0];
            NewExpression newExp = Expression.New(ctor, argsExp);
            LambdaExpression lambda = Expression.Lambda(typeof(Func<TThis>), newExp);

            Factory = (Func<TThis>)lambda.Compile();
        }

        public TValue Value { get; protected set; }

        public static TThis From(TValue item)
        {
            TThis x = Factory();
            x.Value = item;
            x.Validate();

            return x;
        }

        protected virtual bool Equals(ValueOf<TValue, TThis> other)
        {
            return EqualityComparer<TValue>.Default.Equals(Value, other.Value);
        }

        public override bool Equals(object obj)
        {
            if (obj is null)
                return false;

            if (ReferenceEquals(this, obj))
                return true;

            return obj.GetType() == GetType() && Equals((ValueOf<TValue, TThis>)obj);
        }

        public override int GetHashCode()
        {
            return EqualityComparer<TValue>.Default.GetHashCode(Value);
        }

        public static bool operator ==(ValueOf<TValue, TThis> a, ValueOf<TValue, TThis> b)
        {
            if (a is null && b is null)
                return true;

            if (a is null || b is null)
                return false;

            return a.Equals(b);
        }

        public static bool operator !=(ValueOf<TValue, TThis> a, ValueOf<TValue, TThis> b)
        {
            return !(a == b);
        }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return Value.ToString();
        }
    }
}

public class EmailAddress : ValueOf<string, EmailAddress> { }

EmailAddress emailAddress = EmailAddress.From("foo@bar.com");

public class Address : ValueOf<(string firstLine, string secondLine, Postcode postcode), Address> { }

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();