Logging isn’t exactly a hot topic, it is one of those after thought topics really. You have the software half way written, then you think: “I really should be put some logging in this”. Now what? Luckily there are a plethora of solutions: Log4Net, NLog, Microsoft Patterns & Practices Logging Application Block, and others. (Note […]
Read MoreOren posted a pattern for converting Domain entities to DTO’s using a delegate. He made a comment in his post: “I did try to make it into a framework, but even I can’t make it more complex than this.” I started laughing to myself because I actually tried something similar a few weeks ago, and […]
Read MoreOK, I finally upgraded to VS 2008 and am giving it a whirl. And this is Visual Studio Team Systems Development Edition. So some things may not apply. But before I really begin, I should note a few things: I’m not using any C# 3.0 features yet. That means no LINQ, no Lambda, no Anonymous […]
Read MoreOne of the main things the Web Client Software Factory has done in their latest efforts is target "brownfield" development environments. Many members of the advisory board communicated the factory approach was just not an option, as they had an existing code base too large to refactor in order to adapt to the architecture guidance […]
Read MoreI’ve been reading Debugging .Net 2.0 Applications by John Robbins and just came across this great quote which is attributed to François Poulin: Code as if whoever maintains your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live. There is a common thread to things that people have been saying in the Test Driven […]
Read MoreSon of a nutcracker! I mean, really! Take a look at this screen shot from my services applet. The back story on this is that I had manually disabled the Windows Search Service (not set it to manual, mind you) because it sucks up enough resources to choke a Cracker Barrel regular. After turning the […]
Read MoreIf you are interested in the Entity Framework-EDM, Danny Simmons has just posted draft FAQ, check it out here
Read MoreWhen querying with linq the background compiler automatically infers type information from any implementation of IEnumerable<T> as IEnumerable<anonymous type>. This gives us the IntelliSense we know and love while writing a query against a known type, without being bound to query results of which are of that type. Instead we can project onto new known […]
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