I pushed out a new version of Respawn today: * Release notes * NuGet Enjoy!

To keep a running example of "how we do web apps", I've updated my Contoso University example app to ASP.NET Core 3.0. This sample app is just a re-jiggering of Microsoft's Contoso University Razor Pages sample app . It shows how we (Headspring)

Recently, I was testing some interop with Azure Service Bus, which has a rather useful feature when used with Azure Functions in that you can directly bind JSON to an custom type, to do something like: [FunctionName("SaySomething")] public static void Run([ServiceBusTrigger("Endpoints.SaySomething", Connection

A small release for Respawn but there's a breaking change in the underlying extension API, hence the major version bump. A couple things added here: * Support for MySQL * Support for Amazon RDS (from a bug fixed) The API change was added so that database adapters can specify the

Today I pushed out a small change to the AutoMapper.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection package to allow instance-based initialization. Before you initialize with services.AddAutoMapper(), set a configuration flag: ServiceCollectionExtensions.UseStaticRegistration = false; services.AddAutoMapper(); By default the extension will register using Mapper.Initialize, but with this flag off, the extension instead

Today I pushed out AutoMapper 6.2.0. Check out the release notes for the closed issues. A couple of big features in this release include inline maps, where AutoMapper no longer requires you to call CreateMap for new maps. I had resisted this idea (and even took out the

A few years back, I had a somewhat new problem on hand. I needed to, on a daily basis, wipe and re-insert about 100 million rows of product data into a customer support database. The data was in the form of a single CSV file (zipped of course), and I