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Have you ever struggled to make your ASP.NET MVC views format your properties of type DateTime correctly? I have. And I've been shot in the leg by weird hacks made by both myself (just 6 months earlier) and someone else. ....

This post describes the fix to THE "No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name 'System.Data....

This page describes multiple ways to fix the  'Spatial types and functions are not available for this provider because the assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Types’ version 10 or higher could not be found....

While using Entity Framework and code-first migrations, Entity Framework (EF) creates the indexes for you - but what if you need to create a custom one, explicitly based on a certain field/column?...

This post describes an issue with EF's code-first migrations, when mapping between DB's DateTime (datetime2) and C#'s DateTime simply fails, and results in the Update-Database cmdlet failing, too....