A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

So if 4 different users connect to the ASP.Net app it will open 4-8 connections. If we make multiple hits to the database, we will not open a new connection for us individually, but our connection isn ...

Take advantage of the Dapper ORM’s support for asynchronous operations to bring fast data access to your ASP.NET Core applications Dapper is an open source, lightweight “micro ORM” that supports many ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...

In ASP.NET Core, your web.config file with its <appsettings> section is gone. The replacement is a more extensive and configurable system that you can leverage to simplify configuring your objects. In ...