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New Pluralsight Course: Architecting an ASP.NET Core MVC Application for Unit Testability
My latest Pluralsight course just went live a couple of days ago — Architecting an ASP.NET Core MVC Application for Unit Testability. I’ve been wanting to write this course for at least a couple of years now. I like to think of is as the missing modules from all my TFS and DevOps classes. When…
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Walkthrough: Entity Framework Core 1.1 with Migrations
Here’s a walk-through on how to create a new solution that uses an ASP.NET Core project, an MSTest unit test project, and Entity Framework Core 1.1 (EFCore1.1). I’m not sure if you’ve found this to be the case but I’ve been struggling with the documentation for a few days trying to figure out how to…
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Using TFS Build to Deploy Entity Framework Database Migrations with Migrate.exe
In the discussion thread for my DevOps Skills class at Pluralsight, I got a question about how to deploy database changes in a build using Entity Framework Migrations (aka. EF Code First Migrations). It’s actually pretty easy and it all comes down to a tool that comes with Entity Framework called migrate.exe. When you deploy your…