Tales from the Development Crypt: Going Full Speed Ahead

As developers, we love tools. But often, too much tooling gets in the way when trying to develop applications quickly. Have you ever been ripping through code when you want to refactor or do a common task, but just can’t find the command for it because there are too many distractions? It’s very frustrating! Let’s take a look at how ReSharper brings back simplicity when using an IDE, with its famous Context Actions - or Alt+Enter - the small but mighty problem-solving shortcut. And keep in mind: Rider builds on top of ReSharper, so these features work there, too! Enter, Alt+Enter! Context Actio

With the .NET 5 release comes the newest Entity Framework Core version, unsurprisingly called Entity Framework Core 5 (EF Core 5). The .NET community got its first glimpse of Entity Framework (EF) on August 11th, 2008, with the release of .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Let's say a few things have changed since the initial release. For those unfamiliar with the technology, Entity Framework is an object-relational mapper (ORM), helping developers overcome the impedance mismatches between C# and a database instance's schema. Entity Framework has come a long way since its original inception.