- Reduce start up time by loading finished code first models from a persistent cache
- Fluent API to define indexes
- DbFunctions.Like() to enable writing LINQ queries that translate to LIKE in SQL
- Migrate.exe should support -script option
- EF6 does not work with primary key from sequence
- Update error numbers for SQL Azure Execution Strategy
- Bug: Retrying queries or SQL commands fails with “The SqlParameter is already contained by another SqlParameterCollection”
- Bug: Evaluation of DbQuery.ToString() frequently times out in the debugger

public class Category
{
    public int CategoryId { set; get; }
    public string CategoryName { set; get; }

    [JsonIgnore]
    public IList<Product> Products { set; get; }
}


public class Product
{
    public int ProductId { set; get; }
    public string ProductName { set; get; }
}

namespace AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    public class ProductController : Controller
    {
        [HttpGet("[action]")]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetCategories()
        {
            await Task.Delay(500);

            return Json(CategoriesDataSource.Items);
        }

        [HttpGet("[action]/{categoryId:int}")]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetProducts(int categoryId)
        {
            await Task.Delay(500);

            var products = CategoriesDataSource.Items
                            .Where(category => category.CategoryId == categoryId)
                            .SelectMany(category => category.Products)
                            .ToList();
            return Json(products);
        }
    }
}

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

 >ng g c product/product-group

>ng g cl product/product
>ng g cl product/Category
>ng g cl product/product-group-form

export class ProductGroupForm {
  constructor(
    public categoryId?: number,
    public productId?: number
  ) { }
}

export class Product {
  constructor(
    public productId: number,
    public productName: string
  ) { }
}

export class Category {
  constructor(
    public categoryId: number,
    public categoryName: string
  ) { }
}

 >ng g s product/product-items -m product.module

import { Injectable } from "@angular/core";
import { Http, Response, Headers, RequestOptions } from "@angular/http";

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 { Category } from "./category";
import { Product } from "./product";

@Injectable()
export class ProductItemsService {

  private baseUrl = "api/product";

  constructor(private http: Http) { }

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

  getCategories(): Observable<Category[]> {
    return this.http
      .get(`${this.baseUrl}/GetCategories`)
      .map(response => response.json() || {})
      .catch(this.handleError);
  }

  getProducts(categoryId: number): Observable<Product[]> {
    return this.http
      .get(`${this.baseUrl}/GetProducts/${categoryId}`)
      .map(response => response.json() || {})
      .catch(this.handleError);
  }
}

export class ProductGroupComponent implements OnInit {

  categories: Category[] = [];
 model = new ProductGroupForm();

  constructor(private productItemsService: ProductItemsService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.productItemsService.getCategories().subscribe(
      data => {
        this.categories = data;
      },
      err => console.log("get error: ", err)
    );
  }

<div class="container">
  <h3>Cascading Drop-down Lists</h3>
  <form #form="ngForm" (submit)="submitForm(form)" novalidate>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label class="control-label">Category</label>
      <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-refresh glyphicon-spin spinner" *ngIf="categories.length == 0"></span>
      <select class="form-control" name="categoryCtrl" #categoryCtrl (change)="fetchProducts(categoryCtrl.value)"
        [(ngModel)]="model.categoryId">
        <option value="undefined">Select a Category...</option>
        <option *ngFor="let category of categories" value="{{category.categoryId}}">
          {{ category.categoryName }}
        </option>
      </select>
    </div>

  products: Product[] = [];
  isLoadingProducts = false;

  fetchProducts(categoryId?: number) {
    console.log(categoryId);

    this.products = [];

    if (categoryId === undefined || categoryId.toString() === "undefined") {
      return;
    }

    this.isLoadingProducts = true;
    this.productItemsService.getProducts(categoryId).subscribe(
      data => {
        this.products = data;
        this.isLoadingProducts = false;
      },
      err => {
        console.log("get error: ", err);
        this.isLoadingProducts = false;
      }
    );
  }

 <option value="undefined">Select a Category...</option>

 public categoryId?: number

 model = new ProductGroupForm();

    <div class="form-group">
      <label class="control-label">Product</label>
      <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-refresh glyphicon-spin spinner" *ngIf="isLoadingProducts"></span>
      <select class="form-control" name="productCtrl" [(ngModel)]="model.productId">
        <option value="undefined">Select a Product...</option>
        <option *ngFor="let product of products" value="{{product.productId}}">
          {{ product.productName }}
        </option>
      </select>
    </div>

/* Spinner */
.spinner {
  font-size:15px;
  z-index:10
}

.glyphicon-spin {
    -webkit-animation: spin 1000ms infinite linear;
    animation: spin 1000ms infinite linear;
}
@-webkit-keyframes spin {
    0% {
        -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg);
        transform: rotate(0deg);
    }
    100% {
        -webkit-transform: rotate(359deg);
        transform: rotate(359deg);
    }
}
@keyframes spin {
    0% {
        -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg);
        transform: rotate(0deg);
    }
    100% {
        -webkit-transform: rotate(359deg);
        transform: rotate(359deg);
    }
}

>npm install
>ng build --watch

>dotnet restore
>dotnet watch run

A library that generates HTML (e.g. for emails) from Razor Components  

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
                    xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib">
    <system:String x:Key="button1">Hello!</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button2">How Are You?</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button3">Are You OK?</system:String>
 
</ResourceDictionary>

<Application x:Class="BeRMOoDA.WPF.LocalizationSample.App"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">
    <Application.Resources>
 
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Culture_en-US.xaml"/>
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
 
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button1}" />
<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button2}" />
<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button3}" />

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
                    xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib">
    <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="Culture_fa-IR_Farsi.xaml"/>
    </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
    <system:String x:Key="button1">سلام!</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button2">حالت چطوره؟</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button3">خوبی؟</system:String>
</ResourceDictionary>

public class CultureAssemblyModel
    {
        //the text will be displayed to user as language name (like Farsi)
        public string DisplayText { get; set; }
        //name of .dll file (like Culture_fa-IR_Farsi.dll)
        public string Name { get; set; }
        //standar notation of this culture (like fa-IR)
        public string Culture { get; set; }
        //name of resource dictionary file inside the loaded .dll (like Culture_fa-IR.xaml)
        public string XamlFileName { get; set; }
    }

//will keep information about loaded assemblies
public List<CultureAssemblyModel> CultureAssemblies { get; set; }
 
//loads assmeblies in languages folder and adds their info to list
 void LoadCultureAssemblies()
 {
      //we should be sure that list is empty before adding info (do u want to add some cultures more than one? of course u dont!)
      CultureAssemblies.Clear();
      //creating a directory represents applications directory\languages
      DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + "\\languages");
      //getting all .dll files in the language folder and its sub dirs. (who knows? maybe someone keeps each culture file in a seperate folder!)
      var assemblies = dir.GetFiles("*.dll", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
      //for each found .dll we will create a model and set its properties and then add to list  for (int i = 0; i < assemblies.Count(); i++)
      {

                string name = assemblies[i].Name;

                CultureAssemblyModel model = new CultureAssemblyModel() { DisplayText = name.Split('.', '_')[2], Culture = name.Split('.', '_')[1], Name = name  , XamlFileName =name.Substring(0, name.LastIndexOf(".")) + ".xaml" };
                CultureAssemblies.Add(model);
      }
 }

comboboxLanguages.ItemsSource = CultureAssemblies;

<ComboBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10" VerticalAlignment="Top" MinWidth="100" Name="comboboxLanguages">
            <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <Label Content="{Binding DisplayText}"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

//loads selected culture
 public void LoadCulture(CultureAssemblyModel culture)
 {
     //creating a FileInfo object represents .dll file of selected cultur
     FileInfo assemblyFile = new FileInfo("languages\\" + culture.Name);
     //loading .dll into memory as a .net assembly
     var assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(assemblyFile.FullName);
     //getting .dll file name
     var assemblyName = assemblyFile.Name.Substring(0, assemblyFile.Name.LastIndexOf("."));
     //creating string represents structure of a pack uri (something like this: /{myassemblyname;component/myresourcefile.xaml}
     string packUri = string.Format(@"/{0};component/{1}", assemblyName, culture.XamlFileName);
     //creating a pack uri
     Uri uri = new Uri(packUri, UriKind.Relative);
     //now we have created a pack uri that represents a resource object in loaded assembly
     //and its time to load that as a resource dictionary (do u remember that we had resource dictionary in culture assemblies? don't u?)
     var dic = Application.LoadComponent(uri) as ResourceDictionary;
     dic.Source = uri;
     //here we will remove current merged dictionaries in our resource dictionary and add recently-loaded resource dictionary as e merged dictionary
     var mergedDics = this.Resources.MergedDictionaries;
     if (mergedDics.Count > 0)
          mergedDics.Clear();
     mergedDics.Add(dic);
 }

void comboboxLanguages_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
 {
     var selectedCulture = (CultureAssemblyModel)comboboxLanguages.SelectedItem;
     App app = Application.Current as App;
     app.LoadCulture(selectedCulture);
 }

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