DevContainers can be used in VS Code to make environments easily reproducible for multiple developers.

Monster Dave shows us how to build a background service using ASP.NET Core Hosted Services. Read more at https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/fundamentals/host/hosted-services?view=aspnetcore-3.0&tabs=visual-studio

Simon is running the 2019 Azure camp for Calgary and this post is all about it.

Let’s look at the interesting new Infrastructure as Code solution that is Pulumi for deploying a container to Azure Container Instances

After my recent misadventures attempting to use Noda Time with Entity Framework Core, I decided to see what it would take to use Dapper in a the same scenario.

Noda Time is a fantastic date/time library for .NET. I started using it recently and it really simplified the logic around handling dates. Unfortunately, I ran in to some problems with using Noda Time together with Entity Framework Core.

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore optimistic checks to ensure 2 users can't accidentally overwrite each other's updates to a particular row of data.

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore a more complex write operation that requires us to manage a database transaction.

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore how easy it is to perform basic Insert, Update and Delete operations.

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we look at a way to page through large results sets.