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Breaking Software Principles

Today I wanted to open a conversation about one of the SOLILD principles, because I have observed that talented software developers do not often practice the Open/Closed principle. Overview of Solid S – Single Responsibility. A class does only one thing. O – Open / Closed. A class is open for modification but closed for changing the interface. L – […]

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Speed Up Entity Framework Startup

(Peter Vogel) Before your first query against an Entity Framework (EF) model, EF gathers data about your database based on the entities and relationships you’ve defined to EF; then EF does it again before your first save. If you have lots of entities and relationships in your model, the information-

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Protocols

How are you with Database Connectivity protocols? There have been quite a few over the years. Banyan Vines and IPX/SPX (Novell) have dropped off the radar as their popularity diminished, and the rise of TCP/IP grew. Even still there are other protocols you can use than TCP/IP. If your database is on the same machine as the client you can […]