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EF6 Tips & Tricks

Guidance

• Save only once per task and don't use transactions. See https://coderwall.com/p/jnniww/why-you-shouldn-t-use-entity-framework-with-transactions

Entity classes

Parameterless constructor

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namespace ...
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Linq.Expressions;
    using System.Reflection;

    /// <summary>
    ///     Provides static methods that aid in performing reflection related operations.

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Open the find/replace (in files) dialog.
Enable regular expressions.

Replace

    ([\n]*)([\s]*)([\n]*){([\s])([\n])([\s]*)get;([\n]*)([\s]*)set;([\s])([\n])([\s]*)}

by

     { get; set; }

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[Serializable]
public class CustomException : Exception
{
    public CustomException() { }
    public CustomException(string message) : base(message) { }
    public CustomException(string message, System.Exception innerException) : base(message, innerException) { }

    public override void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
    {
        //...

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public class MyClass : IDisposable
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Finalizes an instance of the <see cref="MyClass"/> class. Releases unmanaged
    /// resources and performs other cleanup operations before the current instance is
    /// reclaimed by garbage collection.
    /// </summary>
    ~MyClass()
    {
        this.Dispose(false);

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        using System.Linq.Expressions;

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the name of the specified property of the specified type.
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T">The type the property is a member of.</typeparam>
        /// <param name="property">The property expression.</param>
        /// <returns>The property name.</returns>
        public static string GetPropertyName<T>(Expression<Func<T, object>> property)
        {