enrico11011
✅ how to do a "login screen" in winforms
i'm building out an app with winforms, and I want a "login screen" that appears on startup and basically locks out the "main app" until you've logged in, is this done using a separate Form? or just a dialog of some kind? what's the best way to tackle it?
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are there any good, up-to-date books on entity framework core?
i've been reading "Entity Framework Core in Action: Second Edition", but I'm not really liking the way it's structured. I've taken a look at "Programming Entity Framework: DbContext" as well, but it was published 2012 and only seems to cover working with DbContext stuff (which is useful, but I need a more comprehensive intro to ECF).
I've got a subscription to o'reilly learning so I'm looking to maximize its use. can anyone recommend a good book suited for newcomers to ECF (and maybe .net in general)
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✅ is there a Winforms API reference?
i have to build a winforms app as part of this school project i'm doing, and i'm opting not to use VS or the designer.
i need an API reference and found this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms?view=windowsdesktop-9.0 but I want to ask if everything i'm going to need for the UI stuff is under System.Windows.Forms or are there other namespaces I'd need to look at?
right now i'm mainly interessted in the controls, layout managers, etc that I'd need to put together a basic, non-functioning UI
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✅ which .net version should I be starting with?
i downloaded the latest version from the dotnet website, 9.0, and attempted to use this -> https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui to build out a simple console app with a TUI, but I got an error saying that i need to be on .net 6, which is marked as end-of-support.
is it fine to stick with 9.0, or should I roll back to 8.0? its not terribly important that I be able to use Terminal.Gui, I just don't want to be locked out of using other libraries because the version of .net i'm using is too new.
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