5 Jun
2008

Annoying Bug in Visual Studio 2005

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Today I hunted down a bug in Visual Studio 2005 that annoyed me tremendously for the past couple of weeks. Starting from this certain point in time, without any reason whatsoever (maybe a sun burst targeting my office desk or something), Visual Studio started littering my source tree with folders named Visual Studio 2005. In […]

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2 Jun
2008

NDepend – Static Analysis Made in Heaven

What is elegant code? Everyone agrees that this is a rather subjective topic. I wrote down my take on this matter not so long ago. Almost every developer out there (an probably myself included) thinks that their own code is the greatest thing since sliced bread and that code written by other developers is just, […]

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2 Jun
2008

The Future of .NET

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That’s the title of the latest .NET Rocks episode. No big deal, just one of the better podcast episodes out there. Microsoft, are you listening? Maybe you should put your chairman on a stage on one of your next big developer conferences, screaming out maintainability, maintainability, maintainability! Let the ASP.NET MVC framework be your first […]

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27 May
2008

Peter works on the web!

It seems that I managed to convince another one of my dear colleagues to start blogging (if my children thaught me one thing, it’s that constant whining actually works!). Peter Eysermans, a real genius and quite popular with the ladies, has started a blog. The Internet has been an insignificant piece of network until this […]

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18 May
2008

Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF

Up until now, we were using the NHibernate facility of Castle Windsor for managing our NHibernate sessions in WCF. But, we want to have a session-per-request approach as one would use when integrating NHibernate with a regular web application. Yesterday I did a small spike to figure out how this should work. It turned out […]

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15 May
2008

Implementing NHibernate Interceptors

One of the areas where NHibernate really shines is it’s high extensibility features. The NHibernate API provides a massive amount of interfaces that can be implemented for your own custom extension pleasure. For me this is a nice change as opposed to the many sealed API’s put out by the Redmond collective (WCF being the […]

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