Validation should begin as close to your database as possible: in your Entity Framework entities. Here's how you can integrate validation code into both the entities the Entity Framework generates and ...

Like everyone else, I like code-first Entity Framework (EF) development because it makes it so easy to integrate custom code with my EF entity code. But even in a pure code-first development, I ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Traditional caching fails to stop "thundering herds" where multiple clients trigger the same work during a miss.

Concurrency handling can be used to maintain data integrity and data consistency when multiple users access the same resource concurrently. Concurrency violations can occur when you have ...