Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available on MSDN this morning. It will be more widely available soon. With a new look and feel it is off an running. After working with it for awhile, I can honestly report that it is a pleasurable product to use. Much attention has been paid to aesthetic, and […]
Read MoreTest 1?2?3? is this blogging software configured correctly??? Wonderful! I?d like to thank David Starr and all the other members of the group for the opportunity to blog here at ElegantCode. A little about me. Prior to joining ElegantCode, I blogged over at staxmanade.blogspot.com. I will probably dual post. (until I decide and give […]
Read MoreA while ago, I submitted a patch to AutoMapper that added basic support for mapping data from an IDataReader/IDataRecord to an object. For those of us who don’t have the luxury to use NHibernate in their projects, this feature can save you from writing lots of repetitive and tedious code. Its usage is pretty much […]
Read MoreI am happy to introduce 2 new Elegant Coders! We are excited to have their contributions to the site and look forward to their wisdom. Kirstin Juhl @kirstinj We are excited to have Kirstin drop wisdom like she has been doing on her current blog: I [heart] Code. From her own bio: I am a […]
Read MoreI got annoyed this week. We were doing our planning poker (with the cards) when one of my coworkers broke out his IPhone instead. He had a planning poker app on his freaking IPhone. I whipped out my Windows Mobile phone and ? did nothing. I grabbed a deck of card and moved on. Afterwards […]
Read MoreI’ve been learning a bit more about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Drive Architecture (EDA) over the last couple of months. Something that kept coming back in the articles and books I’ve read so far is the concept of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). I’ve heard numerous times about NServiceBus, Mass Transit and Rhino Service Bus […]
Read MoreIn September, Cory Isakson and I presented AutoMapper to the Boise .NET Developer User Group (NETDUG). As promised, I have included the sample code here. AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 is available on the CodePlex site. At my company, we have embraced convention-over-configuration throughout our applications, from our data access framework (Fluent NHibernate) to our IoC container […]
Read MoreU3 is a technology used install boot software on thumb drives. Companies use this to ensure that some little application will get loaded or something when you plug their thumb drive into your Windows machine. This can be a favorite move of vendors who give away thumb drives at conferences as swag. They want to […]
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