November 2009 - Page 3 of 4

15 Nov

2009

Enum conversion. Why Oh Why?

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:9 Comments

What MSDN says: enum (C# Reference) Why can?t this just work?

13 Nov

2009

DTO’s, DDD & The Anemic Domain Model

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:3 Comments

I had a comment on my last post Tips for ORM Data Access which i would like like to address with this blog post. I have been trying to wrap my head around the role of the DTO in DDD. My reading of Fowler and Evans seems to indicate that you ought to have your […]

13 Nov

2009

Using the jQuery UI Datepicker with ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates

By: Jason Grundy Category:UncategorizedTag: Asp.Net MVC, JQuery:3 Comments

Brad Wilson has recently completed a blog series about Templates in MVC 2. I really like this feature as it provides me with the ability to quickly generate screens, even if eventually I might have to go back and rework them. Basically I want to have my cake and eat it – I want the […]

12 Nov

2009

Tips for ORM Data Access

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:13 Comments

In my last post I took a stab at Lazy Loading data access, and pointed out a concrete example of why I don?t like it. As with anything there are trade-offs. Here are a few practices I use for clean and fast data access. They are heavily influenced by some common patterns from PoEAA, and […]

12 Nov

2009

Lazy Loading is… well… lazy

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:7 Comments

I find it ironic that we allow our tooling to mask the biggest bottleneck in the system: The database. Having worked with the majority of the ORM tools out there, I can tell you the most common contributor to slow system performance is lazy loading for Data Access. I?ve seen this one all too many […]

12 Nov

2009

NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver

By: Jason Grundy Category:UncategorizedTag: NHibernate:1 Comment

One of the personal reasons that I had for co-founding Guild 3 was for me to re-discover my passion for software. I was suffering from something similar to what Davy Brion (quite bravely) outlined in Avoiding (Or Recovering From) Burnout. For me the age old adage of “a change is as good as a rest” […]

11 Nov

2009

Delete a work Item in TFS

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post:

I needed to delete a work item in TFS and found that by design it is not easy to do. I found that this can be done using the TFS Power Tools via the command line. tfpt.exe destroywi /server:http://ServerName:8080 /workitemid:123 You will get a warning: This action is not recoverable. Are you sure you want […]

10 Nov

2009

Unrecognized attribute ‘targetFramework’ – Asp.Net 4.0

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:6 Comments

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 […]