ErikEJ
@erikej.bsky.social
.NET MVP with a passion for .NET Data, Entity Framework Core & DacFX. GitHub OSS maintainer. Publisher of EF Core Power Tools and other .NET Data tools. Blog: https://erikej.github.io
Pinned
ErikEJ
@erikej.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Build REST API for your database in minutes and with "4 lines of code" using .NET Aspire 9 and a couple of Community Toolkit packages! You can use the API via Swagger right away!
#dotnet #sqlserver #azure #aspire #api
#dotnet #sqlserver #azure #aspire #api
Announcing .NET 10
Announcing .NET 10 - .NET Blog
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
ift.tt
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Announcing .NET 10
.NET and .NET Framework November 2025 servicing releases updates
.NET and .NET Framework November 2025 servicing releases updates - .NET Blog
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for November 2025.
ift.tt
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
.NET and .NET Framework November 2025 servicing releases updates
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) - with the same modern look and feel like Visual Studio 2026!
#sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/akQKHDs
#sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/akQKHDs
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) - with the same modern look and feel like Visual Studio 2026!
#sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/akQKHDs
#sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/akQKHDs
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) - with the same modern look and feel like Visual Studio 2026!
#sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/akQKHDs
#sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/akQKHDs
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) | Microsoft Community Hub
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 GA is now available The SSMS team is thrilled to announce the general availability release of SQL Server Management...
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) - with the same modern look and feel like Visual Studio 2026!
#sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/akQKHDs
#sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/akQKHDs
Visual Studio 2026 will go GA today 🥳 - and it has a LOT of great new features. One of them is built-in support for Mermaid diagrams for database schemas and more - I give an intro in the new episode of the "Visual Studio Toolbox" show
#mermaidjs #visualstudio
#mermaidjs #visualstudio
More on Mermaid Charts in Visual Studio 2026
Erik reviews how you can create Mermaid charts in Visual Studio 2026 and previews support for them in his SQL Database Project Power Tools extension.
⌚ Chapters:
00:00 .NET Conf 2025 teaser…
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Visual Studio 2026 will go GA today 🥳 - and it has a LOT of great new features. One of them is built-in support for Mermaid diagrams for database schemas and more - I give an intro in the new episode of the "Visual Studio Toolbox" show
#mermaidjs #visualstudio
#mermaidjs #visualstudio
How Copilot Studio uses .NET and WebAssembly for performance and innovation
How Copilot Studio uses .NET and WebAssembly for performance and innovation - .NET Blog
Learn how Microsoft Copilot Studio uses .NET to provide a consistent AI agent execution across platforms, including on the web via WebAssembly.
ift.tt
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
How Copilot Studio uses .NET and WebAssembly for performance and innovation
Get Ready for .NET Conf 2025!
Get Ready for .NET Conf 2025! - .NET Blog
The biggest .NET event of the year is just one week away! Join us November 11-13 for .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, plus a Student Zone on November 14th.
ift.tt
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Get Ready for .NET Conf 2025!
Do you miss the SDK Style database projects with cross platform build and NuGet reference support in Visual Studio 2026? No need to worry, I got your back!
#sqlserver #database #visualstudio #vs2026
buff.ly/1NXiMi1
#sqlserver #database #visualstudio #vs2026
buff.ly/1NXiMi1
Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio
In this blog post I will introduce you to a new free and open source Visual Studio extension SQL Project Power Tools, that I maintain.
erikej.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Do you miss the SDK Style database projects with cross platform build and NuGet reference support in Visual Studio 2026? No need to worry, I got your back!
#sqlserver #database #visualstudio #vs2026
buff.ly/1NXiMi1
#sqlserver #database #visualstudio #vs2026
buff.ly/1NXiMi1
Jaliya Udagedara always publishes excellent content on his blog!
Latest installment: EF Core 10.0: Support for Partially Updating JSON Columns with ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync
buff.ly/b6tfs1P
#dotnet #efcore
Latest installment: EF Core 10.0: Support for Partially Updating JSON Columns with ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync
buff.ly/b6tfs1P
#dotnet #efcore
EF Core 10.0: Support for Partially Updating JSON Columns with ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync
.NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Jaliya Udagedara
buff.ly
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Jaliya Udagedara always publishes excellent content on his blog!
Latest installment: EF Core 10.0: Support for Partially Updating JSON Columns with ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync
buff.ly/b6tfs1P
#dotnet #efcore
Latest installment: EF Core 10.0: Support for Partially Updating JSON Columns with ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync
buff.ly/b6tfs1P
#dotnet #efcore
Reposted by ErikEJ
Let's look at the improvements we've made in Search in Visual Studio 2026.
Visual Studio Toolbox walks us through them.
🎥 ➡️ msft.it/63325shY9c
#VSToolbox #VisualStudio
Visual Studio Toolbox walks us through them.
🎥 ➡️ msft.it/63325shY9c
#VSToolbox #VisualStudio
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Let's look at the improvements we've made in Search in Visual Studio 2026.
Visual Studio Toolbox walks us through them.
🎥 ➡️ msft.it/63325shY9c
#VSToolbox #VisualStudio
Visual Studio Toolbox walks us through them.
🎥 ➡️ msft.it/63325shY9c
#VSToolbox #VisualStudio
Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert
Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert - .NET Blog
Introducing C# Expert and WinForms Expert: experimental custom agents that help .NET developers write better code with GitHub Copilot.
ift.tt
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert
Looking forward to the release of .NET 10, watching #dotnetconf and sharing my session "Let's create an MCP Server from our .NET tool - and improve our SQL scripts with Copilot"
#dotnet #mcp #mvpbuzz
#dotnet #mcp #mvpbuzz
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Looking forward to the release of .NET 10, watching #dotnetconf and sharing my session "Let's create an MCP Server from our .NET tool - and improve our SQL scripts with Copilot"
#dotnet #mcp #mvpbuzz
#dotnet #mcp #mvpbuzz
1.5 million installs of my free SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio - unbelievable! If YOU use SQLite with Visual Studio, you should try it out.
October 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
1.5 million installs of my free SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio - unbelievable! If YOU use SQLite with Visual Studio, you should try it out.
New release of my SQL Project Power Tools extension for enhancing the SQL Projects developer experience in Visual Studio - now with simple schema compare for SDK style projects
#sqlserver #dotnet #visualstudio
#sqlserver #dotnet #visualstudio
SQL Database Project Power Tools - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio - Tools to enhance the SQL Database Projects developer experience, including Project and Item templates, Import existing databases, create E/R diagrams and much more.
buff.ly
October 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
New release of my SQL Project Power Tools extension for enhancing the SQL Projects developer experience in Visual Studio - now with simple schema compare for SDK style projects
#sqlserver #dotnet #visualstudio
#sqlserver #dotnet #visualstudio
Do you use the SQL Server stress testing tool that I maintain? Make sure to get the latest version, with support for SQL Server 2025 and Fabric SQL database & built-in update check.
#sqlserver #dotnet #performance
#sqlserver #dotnet #performance
Releases · ErikEJ/SqlQueryStress
SQL query stress simulator created by Adam Machanic http://dataeducation.com/sqlquerystress-the-source-code/ - ErikEJ/SqlQueryStress
buff.ly
October 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Do you use the SQL Server stress testing tool that I maintain? Make sure to get the latest version, with support for SQL Server 2025 and Fabric SQL database & built-in update check.
#sqlserver #dotnet #performance
#sqlserver #dotnet #performance
Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org
Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org - .NET Blog
Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org - An easy way to recognize package maintainers and grow the NuGet community stronger!
ift.tt
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org
Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App
Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App - .NET Blog
Step-by-step review on how to upgrade your .NET AI chat app to Microsoft Agent Framework for better architecture, tool integration, and intelligent reasoning.
ift.tt
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App
Reposted by ErikEJ
Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed()
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
Add ability to skip .dacpac deployment by ErikEJ · Pull Request #896 · CommunityToolkit/Aspire
if metadata in the target database indicates that the database has already been deployed fixes #860 Smoke tested with: var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args); var server = builde...
buff.ly
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed()
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
Level up your SQL Database project experience with the "SQL Database Project Power Pack" - with cross platform & NuGet support, live code analysis & formatting with .editorconfg settings
#visualstudio #sqlserver #dotnet
#visualstudio #sqlserver #dotnet
SQL Database Project Power Pack - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio - An extension pack that contains 'SQL Database Project Power Tools', 'T-SQL Analyzer' and 'SQL Formatter' to improve the SQL Database Project developer experience.
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Level up your SQL Database project experience with the "SQL Database Project Power Pack" - with cross platform & NuGet support, live code analysis & formatting with .editorconfg settings
#visualstudio #sqlserver #dotnet
#visualstudio #sqlserver #dotnet
Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed()
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
Add ability to skip .dacpac deployment by ErikEJ · Pull Request #896 · CommunityToolkit/Aspire
if metadata in the target database indicates that the database has already been deployed fixes #860 Smoke tested with: var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args); var server = builde...
buff.ly
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed()
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
Just blogged: Reduce SQL Database Project deployment time from minutes to single digit seconds with DacDeploySkip
#dotnet #sqlserver #deployment #devops
erikej.github.io/dacfx/perfor...
#dotnet #sqlserver #deployment #devops
erikej.github.io/dacfx/perfor...
Reduce SQL Database Project deployment time from minutes to single digit seconds with DacDeploySkip
Using SQL Database Projects for deployment of schema changes with a .dacpac file to SQL Server and Azure SQL Database is a great, free solution, supported by many tools, like SQL Server Data Tools (SS...
erikej.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Just blogged: Reduce SQL Database Project deployment time from minutes to single digit seconds with DacDeploySkip
#dotnet #sqlserver #deployment #devops
erikej.github.io/dacfx/perfor...
#dotnet #sqlserver #deployment #devops
erikej.github.io/dacfx/perfor...
Just blogged: Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft .Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on!
#dotnet #efcore #sqlserver #performance
buff.ly/SDVohv0
#dotnet #efcore #sqlserver #performance
buff.ly/SDVohv0
Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on!
tl;dr - Enable a new feature in the latest .NET SqlClient driver with a couple of switches to get a 180% increase in speed when reading large binary and text data using async methods.
erikej.github.io
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just blogged: Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft .Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on!
#dotnet #efcore #sqlserver #performance
buff.ly/SDVohv0
#dotnet #efcore #sqlserver #performance
buff.ly/SDVohv0
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates
.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates - .NET Blog
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for October 2025.
ift.tt
October 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates
Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2
Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 - .NET Blog
.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 focuses on final quality, reliability, and stabilization across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.
ift.tt
October 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2