Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer. I frequently get asked if Entity Framework (EF) in a ...

When you call Entity Framework's SaveChanges method, Entity Framework has to know what entities have changed in order to figure out what SQL Update/Delete/Insert statements to generate. If you also ...

A typical screen in your user interface probably combines data from several different tables. To handle that, I typically have my back-end processes generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) which combine ...

New AI functions can be used in Visual Studio 2022, and for the upcoming release Visual Studio 2026, Microsoft provides a C++ upgrade guide.