Explaining Async and Await in ASP.NET

Once in a while, the technical presentations [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/why-you-should-be-giving-technical-presentations/] that I conduct at my day job force me to learn something new, something I'd never had to deal with before. This happened just last week, when my coworkers voted for the topic of the next session to

Loading Entity Framework Related Entities with AutoMapper and Reflection

In a previous post [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-and-wcf-mapping-entities-to-dtos-with-automapper/] I mentioned how we would be using AutoMapper [http://automapper.org/] to create Data-Transfer Objects [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_transfer_object] out of Entity Framework entities; the DTOs would then be transmitted over a WCF service. Well, as often

Dapper vs Entity Framework vs ADO.NET Performance Benchmarking

Just how fast is Dapper.NET compared to ADO.NET and Entity Framework? Let's find out! Download the sample project from GitHub to test on your machine.

Modeling Practice - Candy Land in .NET Part 2: Programming the Game

Let's complete our C# model of Candy Land, and run it to show that it works.

Modeling Practice - Candy Land in .NET Part 1: Overview

Let's build the classic children's game Candy Land as a C# program!