Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults.

You can store encrypted values in your ASP.NET Core configuration file and seamlessly decrypt the values as you retrieve them. But there are, at least, two issues that you'll need to address.

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

Tips and Tricks Encrypting Integer Values in ASP.NET MVC If you want to encrypt integer values, then you're going to need to store the result as a string. If you're also going to roundtrip those ...