How to Fix the Entity Framework LINQ Expression Could Not Be Translated Error

Entity Framework’s LINQ Expression Could Not Be Translated Error often leaves developers puzzled the first time it is encountered, but it’s often not that hard to resolve once the root cause is understood.

Visual Studio Code Markdown Preview (and Reasons Why it Might Not Be Working)

Markdown is now widely used in software engineering. AI-assisted development has increased adoption even further. This has made the Markdown Preview feature in Visual Studio Code and editors based on it extremely useful.

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Visual Studio IDE Tip: Navigate Backward and Forward Through Source Code

Trace your steps in Visual Studio by using the Navigate Backward and Navigate Forward features.

Visual Studio IDE Tip: Go to Definition and Go To Implementation

Easily jump between definitions and implementations in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio IDE Tip: Using the Immediate Window

Learn how to use the Immediate Window, a very powerful debugging tool built into the Visual Studio IDE.

How to generate a GUID or UUID without writing a program.

You don’t need to write a program to create a GUID or UUID. You likely have a tool that will already generate one for you. Let’s look at how to generate a GUID/UUID value in several different tools that already support this feature.

Visual Studio IDE Tip: Jump To Matching Code Delimiter

Learn a very useful Visual Studio IDE keyboard shortcut for jumping to matching code delimiters.

Visual Studio Debugging Tip: Conditional Breakpoints

Learn how to set a conditional breakpoint to stop execution based on a defined condition.

Using the Windows Event Viewer to Debug .NET Applications running on Windows

A guide to understanding how the Windows Event Viewer can be used to debug .NET applications running on Windows platforms.

Options to Transfer Files Between the Host Machine and a VirtualBox VM

After creating a VM with Oracle VirtualBox, one of the first things that may be required is to copy files from the host machine to the VM. Fortunately, there are several options, ranging from very easy and built into VirtualBox to more difficult, but closer to real-world server setups.

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