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Unrecognized attribute ‘targetFramework’ – Asp.Net 4.0

I ran across this error after pushing out an upgraded .NET 4.0 MVC2 application to its existing IIS website.  After some digging around I found this document on MSDN: How to: Upgrade an ASP.NET Web Application to ASP.NET 4 Since the application was previously built on version 3.5, IIS was configured to run as Asp.Net […]

Elegant Code Welcomes Brian Lagunas and Corey Schuman

ElegantCode just got a whole lot smarter in the UX department with the addition of Corey and Brian. Both bring a wealth of UX knowledge from RIA Silverlight, WPF, XAML, Game Development, Animation &  Design. Brian wasted no time dropping several posts here on us at ElegantCode, and I?d bet a few bucks there’s a […]

Boise Code Camp – Test Driven Development with IOC and Mocks

I had the opportunity to speak about Test Driven Development at the 2009 Boise Code Camp. There was a great turnout and overall I think the talk went over with great success. The session(s) start from the simple concept of Red-Green-Refactor and ?Why TDD?? and builds to more advanced topics like using a mock framework […]

Programming Entity Framework

Programming Entity Framework is nearly 800 pages packed full of everything there is to know about EF. The author leaves no stone unturned as she takes you from simplest concepts such as querying & databinding, to more advanced scenarios such as concurrency, N-Tier and using your own Entities with IPoco. The book is chalk full […]

Software Development “Lessons Learned”

My organization just released V1 of our new procurement system. The product is quite massive and we still have a long ways to go, but it feels great to have a working solution end-to-end in production. The actual development time was 33 2 week sprints. We started out with a small team of 5 people, […]

The Injected Context

Nicholas Blumhardt (MEF/Autofac) has started a series of posts on Container-Managed Application Design where he talks about how IoC containers should fit into an application architecture. I like the delivery of the post in how it focuses on the ‘Mental Models’ most of us have formed about how an IoC container should work, and the […]

Single Responsibility Principle