Anyone who has worked with Entity Framework must have managed related entities. I believe many developers will agree the way that system works is difficult to reconcile with design patterns such as the Repository pattern. In this post, I’ll provide one quick and easy way to automatically load all related properties from the database.
Update 2018-11-26: Added the equivalent for EF Core.
For the last few days I’ve been getting an error when comparing database schemas in Visual Studio using the SQL Server Data Tools:
“Unexpected exception caught during population of source model: Object reference not set to an instance of an object”
As you might have read in my previous post, I used SQL schemas to partition data between tenants. Being part of the true definition of SaaS, a new tenant should be up and running within minutes without any human intervention. With my suggested approach, we need to do two things: Registering a new tenantAttaching users to the tenant In this article, I am going to focus on the first item whereas...