How to safely apply an EF Core migrate on ASP.NET Core startup
There are many ways to migrate a database using EF Core, and one of the most automatic approaches is to call EF Core’s MigrateAsync method on startup of your ASP.NET Core application – that way you...
View ArticleBuilding ASP.NET Core and EF Core multi-tenant apps – Part1: the database
Multi-tenant applications are everywhere – your online banking is one example and GitHub is another. They consist of one set of code that is used by every user, but each user’s data is private to that...
View ArticleBuilding ASP.NET Core and EF Core multi-tenant apps – Part2: Administration
In Part 1 of this series, you learnt how to set up the multi-tenant application database so that each tenant had its own set of data, which is private to them. This article explores the administration...
View ArticleMulti-tenant apps with different versions can increase your profits
This article explores ways you can make each tenant in your multi-tenant applications have different features – for instance, Visual Studio has three versions: Community, Pro, and Enterprise. This is...
View ArticleBuilding ASP.NET Core and EF Core hierarchical multi-tenant apps
This article looks at a specific type of multi-tenant where a tenant can have a sub-tenant. For instance, a large company called XYZ with different businesses could have a top-level tenant called XYZ,...
View ArticleAdvanced techniques around ASP.NET Core Users and their claims
This article describes some advanced techniques around adding or updating claims of users when building ASP.NET Core applications. These advanced techniques are listed below with examples taken from...
View ArticlePart6: Using sharding to build multi-tenant apps using ASP.NET Core and EF Core
This article describes how to use EF Core and ASP.NET Core to create a multi-tenant application where each different groups (known as tenants) has its own database – this is known as sharding. A...
View ArticleUsing custom databases with the AuthP library – Part1: normal apps
The AuthPermissions.AspNetCore library, referred to as AuthP library, provides enhanced Roles authentication and multi-tenant services to an .NET application. The AuthP library needs to store...
View ArticleThe (long) journey to a better sharding multi-tenant application
This article focuses on the sharding approach of building a .NET multi-tenant application using the AuthPermissions.AspNetCore library (shortened to AuthP). After working exclusively on a...
View ArticleA detailed look at EF Core’s JSON Columns feature
Some developers used EF Core JSON Columns in their DbContext when using my EfCore.SchemaCompare library, then they had a problem. That’s because I hadn’t added support for JSON Columns to my...
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