2 Sep
2008

Code Cast 13 – Microsoft Patterns and Practices

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: , , , , :

Chris and David were lucky enough to sit down (okay, it was a conference call) with Grigori Melnik and Ajoy Krishnamoorthy from Microsoft?s Patterns and Practices. Grigori and Ajoy covered a wide range of topics including Agile development practices within P&P, what P&P has to offer the community, and forthcoming products from the team. Show […]

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30 Mar
2008

What is Elegant Code to me?

By: Chris Brandsma Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :1 Comment on What is Elegant Code to me?

This question keeps popping up around here (“around here” being the loose conglomeration that makes up the Elegant Code group).  It isn’t easy to describe.  And really, the notion of what constitutes elegance in code changes over time.  There is no static “this is good code” test, and I doubt there ever will be.  Plus, […]

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15 Mar
2008

Code Cast 5 – Matt Milner

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This week’s Elegant Code Cast is an interview with Matt Milner of PluralSight and MSDN Magazine. Matt is an amazing presenter and fount of knowledge on WCF, WF, and BizTalk. He drops some great knowledge on these subjects and enterprise SOA, along with some discussion of Oslo, Microsoft’s new Model Driven initiative. PluralSight Matt’s Blog […]

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18 Feb
2008

Code Cast 3 – Chris Brandsma

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: , , , , , :

In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we visit with Elegant Coder Chris Brandsma. Chris is a senior developer at Mobile Data Force in Boise, Idaho. Chris provides some great details on subjects ranging from AJAX and RIA separation of concerns to LINQ and Lambda expressions. He also gives us a glimpse of what […]

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17 Feb
2008

Microsoft releases Unity, an IoC library

By: Chris Brandsma Category:UncategorizedTag: , , , :4 Comments on Microsoft releases Unity, an IoC library

Here is a bit of interesting news out of Microsoft.  They have released their first IoC container named Unity.  It is out on CodePlex now: http://www.codeplex.com/unity If you are looking for a similar product with a longer lineage, you could look up: StructureMap, Spring.Net, and Castle Windsor.  StructureMap is maintained by Jeremy Miller, who is […]

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29 Jan
2008

WCSF Validation Tweaks

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :3 Comments on WCSF Validation Tweaks

We recently implemented the Validation Bundle from P&P. The Bundle consists of the VAB PropertyProxyValidator from EntLib, as well as a custom ASP.NET AJAX control extender which provides the client callback support. For the most part the Bundle rocks, but there are a few things which didn’t meet our needs: The default PropertyProxyValidator inherits from […]

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16 Jan
2008

MVC at Boise NetDug Tomorrow Night

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: , , , , :1 Comment on MVC at Boise NetDug Tomorrow Night

Anyone in the Boise area can come out and get a taste of the new ASP.Net MVC framework from Microsoft. I will be doing an hour or so on the MVC framework at the local .Net users group. Following the MVC talk, Martin Danner will be doing an hour or so on the fresh new […]

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3 Jan
2008

Mocking the Model in ASP.Net MVC

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :

The promise of the new ASP.Net MVC framework is better testability through separation of concerns. With that in mind, some folks are talking about how well that goal is realized with the new framework. One thing that makes testing a little difficult is the fact there is no dependency injection (DI) model built into the […]

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