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Sending Email with SendGrid
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Matthew Hess
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2025 - July/August
Matthew explores the advantages of using SendGrid for sending bulk emails, specifically in C# programming. He highlights the limitations of traditional methods, like SMTPClient and Mailkit, when dealing with a high volume of messages. Hess demonstrates the setup and utilization of SendGrid's REST API, focusing on its C# utility classes and personalizations feature, enabling efficient customization of emails for individual recipients. Additionally, he delves into template creation and management, showcasing SendGrid’s tools for crafting professional-quality email templates. Hess underscores SendGrid’s functionality in simplifying bulk email processes while avoiding issues related to SPAM filters and message limits.
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Some Overlooked EF Core 7 Changes and Improvements
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Julie Lerman
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - March/April
Great updates for EF Core 7 include explicit methods FromSqlRaw and FromSqlInterpolated. The SqlQuery method lets you pass in a raw SQL query to get scalar data directly from the database. And many more cool features. Read about them in Julie's article.
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EF Core 7: It Just Keeps Getting Better
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2022 - Vol. 19 - Issue 1 - .NET 7.0
Julie Lerman surveys EF Core 7’s notable advances—focused on substantial performance optimizations, true bulk ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteDelete, JSON column mapping, stored-procedure mapping, new interceptors (including materialization), richer provider-specific aggregates, improved convention customization, and greater EF6 parity—arguing these features make EF Core 7 a faster, more flexible, and production-ready platform worth adopting even on .NET 6 LTS.
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Change Tracking Mixed-State Graphs in EF Core
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - May/June
Julie says that integration testing is the key to tracking changes in EF Core. Learn what you need to know to get up and running with it.
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EF Core 6: Fulfilling the Bucket List
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2021 - Vol. 18 - Issue 1 - .NET 6.0
Julie Lerman surveys EF Core 6 as a curated “bucket list” release, highlighting how the team prioritized long-desired enhancements across performance, modeling, migrations, and provider support. She emphasizes dramatic query speed gains, startup-model pre-compilation, standalone migrations bundles, and native temporal-table support, along with bulk configuration, expanded GroupBy capabilities, and Cosmos DB improvements such as implicit ownership and richer logging. The article blends practical how-tos with context on planning transparency and community feedback, illustrating EF Core 6 as a thoughtful evolution that narrows gaps with EF6 while expanding nonrelational support.
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Tapping into EF Core’s Pipeline
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Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - March/April
Julie describes new EF Core 5 metadata features and how to use them, including ToQueryString, DbCloggerCategory, DbContext.SavingChanges, DbContext.SavedChanges, DbContext.SaveChangesFailed, Dotnet-counters, ChangeTracker.DebugView and Model.DebugView.
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