Jarod Ferguson, Author at ElegantCode

15 Dec

2009

Unity Extension for Entity Framework POCO Configuration, Repository and Unit of Work

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:UncategorizedTag: Entity Framework:6 Comments

In 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 […]

15 Dec

2009

Entity Framework POCO (EF4): Generic Repository and Unit of Work Prototype

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:UncategorizedTag: Entity Framework:29 Comments

In 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 […]

15 Dec

2009

Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:UncategorizedTag: Entity Framework:17 Comments

The 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 […]

23 Nov

2009

IIS 7.5 – 401.3 Unauthorized when trying to read a javascript file

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

Here is one that took me entirely too long to figure out. I downloaded this Nifty Corners Cube javascript? plugin I guess Ill call it? It was used in a past project I was on and I thought it was pretty cool. It will definitely save some time putting out a decent UX without having […]

23 Nov

2009

Why I didn’t blog from March-August (off topic… a little)

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:4 Comments

Some of you who follow Elegant Code, as well as some of the Elegant Coders may have wondered why my blog went dark for a while this last year. Well, sometimes life just kicks you in the balls. Lets rewind to January of 2009. My wife Katy and I own 3 properties, one we live […]

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 […]

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 […]