namespace EFCorePgExercises.Entities
{
    public class Booking
    {
       // ...

        public int MemId { set; get; }
        public virtual Member Member { set; get; }

       // ...
    }
}

var startTimes = context.Bookings
                        .Where(booking => booking.Member.FirstName == "David"
                                            && booking.Member.Surname == "Farrell")
                        .Select(booking => new { booking.StartTime })
                        .ToList();

namespace EFCorePgExercises.Entities
{
    public class Booking
    {
       // ...

        public int FacId { set; get; }
        public virtual Facility Facility { set; get; }

       // ...
    }
}

int[] tennisCourts = { 0, 1 };
var date1 = new DateTime(2012, 09, 21);
var date2 = new DateTime(2012, 09, 22);
var startTimes = context.Bookings
                        .Where(booking => tennisCourts.Contains(booking.Facility.FacId)
                                && booking.StartTime >= date1
                                && booking.StartTime < date2)
                        .Select(booking => new { booking.StartTime, booking.Facility.Name })
                        .ToList();

namespace EFCorePgExercises.Entities
{
    public class Member
    {
       // ...

        public virtual ICollection<Member> Children { get; set; }
        public virtual Member Recommender { set; get; }
        public int? RecommendedBy { set; get; }

       // ...
    }
}

var members = context.Members
                        .Where(member => member.Recommender != null)
                        .Select(member => new { member.Recommender.FirstName, member.Recommender.Surname })
                        .Distinct()
                        .OrderBy(member => member.Surname).ThenBy(member => member.FirstName)
                        .ToList();

var members = context.Members
                        .Select(member => new
                        {
                            memFName = member.FirstName,
                            memSName = member.Surname,
                            recFName = member.Recommender.FirstName ?? "",
                            recSName = member.Recommender.Surname ?? ""
                        })
                        .OrderBy(member => member.memSName).ThenBy(member => member.memFName)
                        .ToList();

A LEFT JOIN B            A LEFT OUTER JOIN B
A RIGHT JOIN B           A RIGHT OUTER JOIN B
A FULL JOIN B            A FULL OUTER JOIN B
A INNER JOIN B           A JOIN B

namespace EFCorePgExercises.Entities
{
    public class Booking
    {
       // ...

        public int FacId { set; get; }
        public virtual Facility Facility { set; get; }

        public int MemId { set; get; }
        public virtual Member Member { set; get; }

       // ...
    }
}

namespace EFCorePgExercises.Entities
{
    public class Member
    {
       // ...

        public virtual ICollection<Booking> Bookings { set; get; }
    }
}

int[] tennisCourts = { 0, 1 };
var members = context.Members
                        .SelectMany(x => x.Bookings)
                        .Where(booking => tennisCourts.Contains(booking.Facility.FacId))
                        .Select(booking => new
                        {
                            Member = booking.Member.FirstName + " " + booking.Member.Surname,
                            Facility = booking.Facility.Name
                        })
                        .Distinct()
                        .OrderBy(x => x.Member)
                        .ToList();

var date1 = new DateTime(2012, 09, 14);
var date2 = new DateTime(2012, 09, 15);

var items = context.Members
                        .SelectMany(x => x.Bookings)
                        .Where(booking => booking.StartTime >= date1 && booking.StartTime < date2
                        && (
                            (((booking.Slots * booking.Facility.GuestCost) > 30) && (booking.MemId == 0)) ||
                            (((booking.Slots * booking.Facility.MemberCost) > 30) && (booking.MemId != 0))
                        ))
                        .Select(booking => new
                        {
                            Member = booking.Member.FirstName + " " + booking.Member.Surname,
                            Facility = booking.Facility.Name,
                            Cost = booking.MemId == 0 ?
                                        booking.Slots * booking.Facility.GuestCost
                                        : booking.Slots * booking.Facility.MemberCost
                        })
                        .Distinct()
                        .OrderByDescending(x => x.Cost)
                        .ToList();

var members = context.Members
                        .Select(member =>
                        new
                        {
                            Member = member.FirstName + " " + member.Surname,
                            Recommender = context.Members
                                .Where(recommender => recommender.MemId == member.RecommendedBy)
                                .Select(recommender => recommender.FirstName + " " + recommender.Surname)
                                .FirstOrDefault() ?? ""
                        })
                        .Distinct()
                        .OrderBy(member => member.Member)
                        .ToList();

var date1 = new DateTime(2012, 09, 14);
var date2 = new DateTime(2012, 09, 15);

var items = context.Members
                        .SelectMany(x => x.Bookings)
                        .Where(booking => booking.StartTime >= date1 && booking.StartTime < date2)
                        .Select(booking => new
                        {
                            Member = booking.Member.FirstName + " " + booking.Member.Surname,
                            Facility = booking.Facility.Name,
                            Cost = booking.MemId == 0 ?
                                        booking.Slots * booking.Facility.GuestCost
                                        : booking.Slots * booking.Facility.MemberCost
                        })
                        .Where(x => x.Cost > 30)
                        .Distinct()
                        .OrderByDescending(x => x.Cost)
                        .ToList();

mydomain.com/Home/Index
mydomain.com/home/index
mydomain.com/Home/index
mydomain.com/home/Index

using System.Globalization;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace WebToolkit
{
    public class ForceWww : ActionFilterAttribute
    {
        public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            modifyUrlAndRedirectPermanent(filterContext);
            base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
        }

        private static void modifyUrlAndRedirectPermanent(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            if (canIgnoreRequest(filterContext))
                return;

            var absoluteUrl = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
            var absoluteUrlToLower = absoluteUrl.ToLowerInvariant();

            absoluteUrlToLower = forceWwwAndLowercase(filterContext, absoluteUrlToLower);
            absoluteUrlToLower = avoidTrailingSlashes(filterContext, absoluteUrlToLower);

            if (!absoluteUrl.Equals(absoluteUrlToLower))
            {
                filterContext.Result = new RedirectResult(absoluteUrlToLower, permanent: true);
            }
        }

        private static string avoidTrailingSlashes(ActionExecutingContext filterContext, string absoluteUrlToLower)
        {
            if (!isRootRequest(filterContext) && absoluteUrlToLower.EndsWith("/"))
                return absoluteUrlToLower.TrimEnd(new[] { '/' });

            return absoluteUrlToLower;
        }

        private static bool isRootRequest(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            return filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.Url.AbsolutePath == "/";
        }

        private static bool canIgnoreRequest(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            return filterContext.IsChildAction || 
                   filterContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAjaxRequest() ||
                   filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Contains("?");
        }

        private static string forceWwwAndLowercase(ActionExecutingContext filterContext, string absoluteUrlToLower)
        {
            if (isLocalRequet(filterContext))
                return absoluteUrlToLower;

            if (absoluteUrlToLower.Contains("www"))
                return absoluteUrlToLower;

            return absoluteUrlToLower.Replace("http://", "http://www.")
                                     .Replace("https://", "https://www.");
        }

        private static bool isLocalRequet(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            return filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.IsLocal;
        }
    }
}

var items = context.Bookings
                    .Where(booking => booking.StartTime.Year == 2012)
                    .Select(booking => new
                    {
                        booking.StartTime.Year,
                        booking.StartTime.Month,
                        DaysInMonth = EF.Functions.DateDiffDay(
                                        booking.StartTime.Date.AddDays(1 - booking.StartTime.Date.Day),
                                        booking.StartTime.Date.AddDays(1 - booking.StartTime.Date.Day).AddMonths(1)
                                        )
                    })
                    .Distinct()
                    .OrderBy(r => r.Year)
                        .ThenBy(r => r.Month)
                    .ToList();

var items = context.Bookings
                    .Select(x => new { x.StartTime, EndTime = x.StartTime.AddMinutes(x.Slots * 30) })
                    .OrderByDescending(x => x.EndTime)
                        .ThenByDescending(x => x.StartTime)
                    .Take(10)
                    .ToList();

var items = context.Bookings
                    .GroupBy(x => new { x.StartTime.Year, x.StartTime.Month })
                    .Select(x => new
                    {
                        x.Key.Year,
                        x.Key.Month,
                        Count = x.Count()
                    })
                    .OrderBy(x => x.Year)
                        .ThenBy(x => x.Month)
                    .ToList();

Round(100 * Sum(Slots) / (decimal)(25 * DaysInMonth), 1)

var items = context.Bookings
                    .Select(booking => new
                    {
                        booking.Facility.Name,
                        booking.StartTime.Year,
                        booking.StartTime.Month,
                        booking.Slots,
                        DaysInMonth = EF.Functions.DateDiffDay(
                                        booking.StartTime.Date.AddDays(1 - booking.StartTime.Date.Day),
                                        booking.StartTime.Date.AddDays(1 - booking.StartTime.Date.Day).AddMonths(1)
                                        )
                    })
                    .GroupBy(b => new { b.Name, b.Year, b.Month, b.DaysInMonth })
                    .Select(g => new
                    {
                        g.Key.Name,
                        g.Key.Year,
                        g.Key.Month,
                        Utilization = SqlDbFunctionsExtensions.SqlRound(
                                100 * g.Sum(b => b.Slots) / (decimal)(25 * g.Key.DaysInMonth),
                                1)
                    })
                    .OrderBy(r => r.Name)
                        .ThenBy(r => r.Year)
                            .ThenBy(r => r.Month)
                    .ToList();

namespace EFCorePgExercises.Utils
{
    public static class SqlDbFunctionsExtensions
    {
        public static decimal SqlRound(decimal value, int precision)
            => throw new InvalidOperationException($"{nameof(SqlRound)} method cannot be called from the client side.");

        private static readonly MethodInfo _sqlRoundMethodInfo = typeof(SqlDbFunctionsExtensions)
            .GetRuntimeMethod(
                nameof(SqlDbFunctionsExtensions.SqlRound),
                new[] { typeof(decimal), typeof(int) }
            );

        public static void AddCustomSqlFunctions(this ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.HasDbFunction(_sqlRoundMethodInfo)
                .HasTranslation(args =>
                {
                    return SqlFunctionExpression.Create("ROUND",
                        args,
                        _sqlRoundMethodInfo.ReturnType,
                        typeMapping: null);
                });
        }
    }
}

namespace EFCorePgExercises.DataLayer
{
    public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
    {
         // ...

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
         // ...
            modelBuilder.AddCustomSqlFunctions();
         // ...
        }
    }
}

 http://en.هشام.com/post/build-customizable-language-switcher-tag-helper-with-bootstrap

 WebRequest wr = WebRequest.Create(uri);
using (WebResponse response = wr.GetResponse()) { }

 The remote name could not be resolved: 'en.هشام.com'

<configuration>
    <uri>
        <idn enabled="All" />
        <iriParsing enabled="true" />
    </uri>
</configuration>

 var unicode = @"en.هشام.com";
 
var mapping = new IdnMapping(); // IDN  = Internationalizing Domain Names
var ascii = mapping.GetAscii(unicode);
Console.WriteLine(ascii);
 
string convertedBackToUnicode = mapping.GetUnicode(ascii);
Console.WriteLine(convertedBackToUnicode);

function LconvertToSRT() 

{
    var arr = getArray();
    var subStr = "-->";

    if (arr[0].indexOf(subStr) < 0) 

   {
        for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
            var timeRe = /\d{2}:\d{2}/i;
            var timeStart = "00:" + arr[i].match(timeRe) + ",200";

            var j = parseInt(i) + parseInt(1);
            if (j < arr.length) {
                var timeEnd = "00:" + arr[i + 1].match(timeRe) + ",200";
            }
            var speakStr = arr[i].replace(/\d{2}:\d{2}\s/, "");
            arr[i] = j + "\n" + timeStart + " --> " + timeEnd + "\n" + speakStr + "\n\n";
        }

        arr.pop();
        var fullText = arr.join("");
        document.getElementById("source").value = fullText;
    }
}

    public class Person
    {
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
    }

    public class PersonWithCtor
    {
        public PersonWithCtor(string firstName)
        {
            this.FirstName = firstName;
        }

        public string FirstName { get; set; }
    }

Person person = new Person();

var person = new Person();

Person person = new();

Person person = new("User 1");

var personList = new List<Person>
        {
            new ("User 1"),
            new ("User 2"),
            // ...
        };

public void Adopt(Person p)
{
    //...
}

public void CallerMethod()
{
    this.Adopt(new Person("User 1"));
    // C# 9.0
    this.Adopt(new("User 1"));
}

XmlReader.Create(reader, new XmlReaderSettings() { IgnoreWhitespace = true });
// C# 9.0
XmlReader.Create(reader, new() { IgnoreWhitespace = true });

Person person = new
{
   FirstName = "User 2"
};

Person person = new()
{
   FirstName = "User 2"
};

private ConcurrentDictionary<string, ObservableList<Cat>> _catsBefore = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, ObservableList<Cat>>();

private ConcurrentDictionary<string, ObservableList<Cat>> _cats = new(); // C# 9.0

public ObservableCollection<Friend> Friends { get; } = new();

public interface IAnimal
{
}

public class Dog : IAnimal
{
}

public class Cat : IAnimal
{
}

Cat cat = null;
Dog dog = new();
IAnimal animal = cat ?? dog;

(int a, int b) t = new(1, 2); // "new" is redundant

(int a, int b) t = new(); // OK; same as (0, 0)