public class Rider
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public EquineBeast Mount { get; set; }
}

public enum EquineBeast
{
    Donkey,
    Mule,
    Horse,
    Unicorn
}

protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
    modelBuilder
        .Entity<Rider>()
        .Property(e => e.Mount)
        .HasConversion(
            v => v.ToString(),
            v => (EquineBeast)Enum.Parse(typeof(EquineBeast), v));
}

var converter = new ValueConverter<EquineBeast, string>(
    v => v.ToString(),
    v => (EquineBeast)Enum.Parse(typeof(EquineBeast), v));
modelBuilder
    .Entity<Rider>()
    .Property(e => e.Mount)
    .HasConversion(converter);

var converter = new EnumToStringConverter<EquineBeast>();
modelBuilder
    .Entity<Rider>()
    .Property(e => e.Mount)
    .HasConversion(converter);

modelBuilder
    .Entity<Rider>()
    .Property(e => e.Mount)
    .HasConversion<string>();

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

    [Column(TypeName = "nvarchar(24)")]
    public EquineBeast Mount { get; set; }
}

namespace DbConfig.Web.DataLayer.Context
{
    public class MyAppContext : DbContext
    {
      // …

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
        {
            var encryptedConverter = new ValueConverter<string, string>(
               convertToProviderExpression: v => new string(v.Reverse().ToArray()), // encrypt
               convertFromProviderExpression: v => new string(v.Reverse().ToArray()) // decrypt
            );

            // Custom application mappings
            builder.Entity<ConfigurationValue>(entity =>
            {
                entity.Property(e => e.Value).IsRequired().HasConversion(encryptedConverter);
            });
        }
    }
}

using System;

namespace Test
{
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property, Inherited = false, AllowMultiple = false)]
    public sealed class EncryptedAttribute : Attribute
    { }
}

namespace DbConfig.Web.DomainClasses
{
    public class ConfigurationValue
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Key { get; set; }

        [Encrypted]
        public string Value { get; set; }
    }
}

namespace DbConfig.Web.DataLayer.Context
{
    public class MyAppContext : DbContext
    {
        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
        {
            var encryptedConverter = new ValueConverter<string, string>(
               convertToProviderExpression: v => new string(v.Reverse().ToArray()), // encrypt
               convertFromProviderExpression: v => new string(v.Reverse().ToArray()) // decrypt
            );

            foreach (var entityType in builder.Model.GetEntityTypes())
            {
                foreach (var property in entityType.GetProperties())
                {
                    var attributes = property.PropertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(EncryptedAttribute), false);
                    if (attributes.Any())
                    {
                        property.SetValueConverter(encryptedConverter);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

 Executed DbCommand (22ms) 
   [Parameters=[@p1='1', 
                @p0='.tset ot eulav wen A' (Nullable = false) (Size = 4000)],
CommandType='Text', CommandTimeout='180']
SET NOCOUNT ON;
UPDATE [Configurations] SET [Value] = @p0
WHERE [Id] = @p1;
SELECT @@ROWCOUNT;

 db.Set<ConfigurationValue>().Where(x => x.Value.EndsWith("world!"))

SELECT [x].[Id], [x].[Key], [x].[Value]
FROM [Configurations] AS [x]
WHERE RIGHT([x].[Value], LEN(N'world!')) = N'!dlrow'

.NET Core May 2020 Updates – 2.1.18 and 3.1.4 

.NET Core 3.1.4 and .NET Core SDK ( Download | Release Notes  

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Blazor is full of promise, and Matthew MacDonald penned this succinct analysis of Blazor Desktop, comparing it to Electron (a JavaScript wrapper for desktop apps) for .NET. 

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You can now email Gists with proper formatting, indentation, and syntax highlighting 

If you want to ensure that the right code is loaded at the right time (and only loaded when you need it), you can use TypeScript code to organize your code into modules. As a side benefit, managing your script tags will get considerably easier

.NET Core 1.1.0 Preview 1 and SDK 1.0.0 Preview2.1 are available for download and testing. 

Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we’ve shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It’s time to update the standard to include some of the new concepts as well as a number of small improvements

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, you’ll notice that we’ve added some enhancements to previous features as well as added some new refactorings. The team focused on improving developer productivity by cutting down time, mouse-clicks, and keystrokes to make the actions you perform every day more efficient