While Dapper provides excellent support for performing CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations efficiently, it does not have built-in support for bulk operations (i.e., bulk insert, bulk update ...

Building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in .NET allows you to expose external tools (like database access) to AI assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot in VS Code) through a standardized interface. In ...

Ever wished you could just ask your database questions in plain English? "How many products did we sell last month?" or "Show me the top 5 customers by revenue," instead of writing complex SQL queries ...

UPDATE (June 5 th, 2025): Since publishing this blogpost, we have updated our tracking to better reflect the full range and complexity of the malicious activities carried out by the OilRig APT group.

First off, let’s create an ASP.NET Core 7 project in Visual Studio 2022. Follow these steps: We’ll use this ASP.NET Core 7 Web API project to work with advanced features of Dapper in the sections ...

Technologists are awed by it. Colleges fear it. Currently, we’re all obsessed by it. But amid the noise, what can you actually do with ChatGPT? How might it serve a regular office worker? Join the ...

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ESET researchers discovered a new wiper and its execution tool, both attributed to the Agrius APT group, while analyzing a supply-chain attack abusing an Israeli software developer. The group is known ...

Evil SQL Client (ESC) is an interactive .NET SQL console client with enhanced SQL Server discovery, access, and data exfiltration features. While ESC can be a handy SQL Client for daily tasks, it was ...

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