Enhancing Application Insights Request Telemetry

A continuation in my series of love letters about Application Insights. Today I explore a method of enhancing the request telemetry that is automatically collected by the Application Insights SDK.

Setting Cloud Role Name in Application Insights

A continuation in my series of love letters about Application Insights. Today I dig into the importance of setting cloud role name.

Getting the Most Out of Application Insights for .NET (Core) Apps

If you've worked with me in the last couple years, you know that I've fallen in love with Application Insights. This is the first in a series of posts designed to help you get the most out of Application Insights for .NET Core applications.

Using NodaTime with Dapper

After my recent misadventures attempting to use Noda Time with Entity Framework Core, I decided to see what it would take to use Dapper in a the same scenario.

Optimistic Concurrency Tracking with Dapper and SQL Server

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore optimistic checks to ensure 2 users can't accidentally overwrite each other's updates to a particular row of data.

Managing Database Transactions in Dapper

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore a more complex write operation that requires us to manage a database transaction.

Basic Insert Update and Delete with Dapper

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore how easy it is to perform basic Insert, Update and Delete operations.

Paging Large Result Sets with Dapper and SQL Server

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we look at a way to page through large results sets.

Loading Related Entities with Dapper Many-to-One - Part 2

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we look at a second option for loading Many-to-One related entities.

Loading Related Entities: Many-to-One

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we will start our journey into more complex query scenarios by exploring how to load related entities. There are a few different scenarios to cover here. In this post we will be covering the Many-to-One scenario.