Recently I wanted to verify that my data access layer could properly read and write to a SQL Server database, and I wanted to have these tests automated. I wanted to answer these questions: Can my DbContext roundtrip entities to the database and back? Does the schema in my migration scripts match the expected schema in my code? (follows from 1) Can my migration scripts be applied to the database correctly? …

As a side project, I am working on a web application that I want to host in Azure eventually. There is a ton of documentation available around Azure but instructions vary by product. I have documented the steps I needed to run a web application in Azure. To make it easier to automate the deployment steps I am avoiding the Azure portal. I want to script these steps later so that I can automate my deployments. …