Dotnet-8

For web developers, building REST APIs is our bread and butter. We use them to expose data and functionality to our clients and to integrate systems together. However, there is no point building the most beautiful API in the world if consumers can't easily use it. In this article were going to look at several strategies we can use to integrate Open API (formerly Swagger) into our .NET 8 Minimal API. We'll investigate some the pitfalls of some of these strategies, and look at how we can use Typed Results to make our APIs more consistent and easier to consume

This blog post delves into the latest updates in Entity Framework Core ORM (EF Core 8), emphasizing its new features and performance improvements. Key highlights include Complex Types for more expressive models, Unmapped Queries for running SQL without an ORM setup, Primitive Collections to store lists of primitives without extra tables, and support for `DateOnly` and `TimeOnly` types. EF Core 8 also enhances Bulk Updates & Deletes, offers advanced JSON Column capabilities, introduces Hierarchy IDs for efficient hierarchical data management, and implements Sentinel Values for better control over database defaults.