After the Kaizenconf of 2008, I wrote down a couple of things I wanted to learn throughout 2009. Looking back at that list for the past year, I think I did fairly well. Retrospective of 2009 I learned more about integration patterns and ESB?s. I also learned about NServiceBus and I?m going to take this […]
Read MoreSo, I was installing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 on one of my machines the other day and the funniest thing happened. After it successfully installed, I was prompted to send an error report. Since when is a successful operation a problem? Now, of course, I am assuming this is intentional and is transmitting […]
Read MoreI have a set of PowerShell build scripts and ran into a case where I needed to load an assembly (to get the assembly?s version) and still (at a later time) work with the assembly file on disk. A typical way to load an assembly within PowerShell is to use the Assembly.LoadFrom(filePath) # Powershell [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($assemblyPath) […]
Read MoreAfter listening to the keynote of Monospace 2009, I got somewhat intrigued by the possibilities of SUSE Studio. Miguel de Icaza talked about this in his presentation and because its not that easy to follow a demo through an mp3 recording, I wanted to try it on my own. SUSE Studio lets you create your […]
Read MoreJimmy Bogard has an excellent post called “Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types” which he uses the StructureMap IOC container to connect messages to handlers. This is something I have been using in my codebase to handle domain events, as well as a publish/subscribe mechanism for WCF message handling. I learned about this […]
Read MoreIn my previous two posts I talk about simple EF4 mappings and some common abstractions I like to work with for my entity persistence operations. In this post I want to take all of the setup code necessary for EF configuration and registration and encapsulate it along with the standard boiler plate IOC container code […]
Read MoreIn my previous post I demonstrated how to create a simple mapping using the latest EF4 CTP. In this post I will look at how I can customize some infrastructure code in an attempt to align EF POCO ?Code Only? with existing patterns, while potentially increasing reuse and testability. A popular pattern for ORM data […]
Read MoreThe latest EF4 CTP released on November 12th includes updated support for POCO’s (Plain Ol’ CLR Objects). Although we could use POCO’s in the previous CTP, we still had to create an EDMX artifact to model our entities, thus leading to a bit of duplication. In this post I want to take a look a […]
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