Better Way to Manage Database Views in EF Core Migrations
When using database views that are not directly managed by Entity Framework Core (EF Core), it is a good practice to still version control and I like to do this by including the scripts to add/drop the views in an EF Core migration script. It is easy enough to use the migration builder sql method to call the sql needed to add and drop your view but as the project grows this becomes way harder to manage. One of my projects has 638 migration scripts (it has been going on for like 5 years now), so you can imagine how difficult it can be to find the previous version of the view when you need to drop a migration script and revert back to the previous version of the view.
Recently, we started managing our view in a different way that has made it easier to find the different versions of the view and simplified our migration scripts. In this post, we are going to look at the implementation we did to manage our views.
Xunit Create Generic Exception Tests
Using XUnit, I was creating a bunch of exception test methods that did the same exact test with the only difference being the type of exception being thrown and I thought there has to be a way to use an XUnit theory to only write a single test method and validate the various exception scenarios.
Luckily, it was really easy to accomplish the goal of having a single test method that validated multiple types of exceptions using an XUnit theory but it took a bit to figure how to accomplish this goal.
How to Setup a Development Environment for Companion v3 and ZoomOSC/ZoomISO Module
Bitfocus Companion version 3 is in beta and they have made it way easier to do module development. In this post, we are going to get your computer set up to be able to do Companion module development.
Get NDI working with OBS 29 on Apple Silicon
I just got a Mac Mini M2 and needed to get OBS 29 (latest version) working with NDI but no matter what I did I kept getting the following error everytime I started OBS.
How to Completely Uninstall OBS on Mac
As part of troubleshooting why on my Mac Mini M2 NDI was not workign with OBS, I needed to completely uninstall OBS (application, plugins, configurations, etc) so that there was no traces of OBS on the system and then re-install OBS.