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The 'Always Valid Entity' is not a fallacy

Mon, 18 May 2009 17:59:29 GMT

Following Jeffrey Palermo's post on the fallacy of the always-valid entity, this article being to look at how an 'always-valid' entity may be implemented.

Visual WebGui new web design tool simplifies DHTML graphic design

Thu, 07 May 2009 19:56:08 GMT

The new Visual WebGui preview version combines the proven ease of Visual WebGui drag and drop application development with visual web design tool. This cutting-edge Control & Theme Designer enables developers and designers to build DHTML or Microsoft Silverlight user interfaces (UIs) with unmatched simplicity

Aggregator Provider Pattern: White Paper and Samples

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:01:02 GMT

Provider Aggregator Pattern is an extension of Provider Pattern, which enables us to create and utilize multiple instance of the class having the same provider interface. In this pattern, there is an Aggregator class which implements the provider interface and contains a collection of instances of classes having the same provider interface.

Learning about the Strategy Design Pattern

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Taking a how you can use the Strategy Design Pattern in your applications. We will start off by looking at code which does not utilize this pattern and then take a look at how we can refactor the code base to utilize the Strategy Pattern.

Learning about the Strategy Design Pattern

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:01:03 GMT

Recently, in KiGG/DotNetShoutout we have integrated Twitter, nothing complex, very basic thing like when a story is submitted or appears in the front page it will broadcast in Twitter and like our feed it will post the short url of the original story (Cant resist to do some shameless marketing for DotNetShoutout). Since it is a new requirement, initially I have modified the StoryService constructor to include the twitter client as a new argument and use it after the story is added in the database, the code is something like the following:...

Identifying the Run-Time and the Design Mode

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:35:34 GMT

Some logic (like connecting to a database) is not meant to be called when the application is in design mode. Opening a Form, or a UserControl, in the Visual Studio Designer (or other IDE design module), which is trying to connect to a database in its constructor or in its Load or Shown event handler will end up with a Designer exception. Handling a database connection is a run-time job only! This situation may be avoided if the run-time specific code is properly handled.

Refactoring Service Dependencies to Separated Interface

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:47:26 GMT

Fantastic article by Billy McCafferty on content you already know... Don't you?? This covers some of the core points that any modern developer simply must know if they want to be taken seriously on all but the most trivial projects.

All 40 Design Patterns FAQ

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:17:43 GMT

This article has all design patterns abstract factory pattern ,builder pattern, prototype pattern , shallow copy and deep copy in prototype patterns , singleton pattern , command patterns , Interpreter pattern, iterator pattern , mediator pattern , memento pattern , observer pattern , state pattern , strategy pattern , visitor pattern , difference between visitor and strategy pattern , adapter pattern ,fly weight pattern , bridge pattern , composite pattern , decorator pattern , Façade pattern , chain of responsibility ( COR) , proxy pattern and template pattern,

'Linq to Gac' : Use Linq to Power Query your Gac via C# to Fusion

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:59:03 GMT

This post gets the GAC via Linq to bend your way. How? A Fusion Wrapper to IEnumerable over your Gac. No nasty PInvokes to deal with. It's all clean C# which is here to use. We owe a debt to the Mono project for this as well as a very smart Microsoft staff member to be give credit when we can find the page again. Be careful however...Our last post cranked through your registry. This post gets you the GAC. Here is what is done with a holistic post later: * All files we can find (if you specify them) * The Gac (all of it and even the other two 'sub-gacs' if you want * Environmental Stuff (Path variable, etc. but we actually parse them and produce another tree and it fits our code) * A lot more (think all things inside you box) You can even join all this data if you can find the right keys. We joined our registry to our file system 'where the registry key value as a path' (where is was a valid path) didn't exist. Earth-shattering? No. Faster then any virus checker we've tried? ABSOLUTELY. Relevant to virus checkers? No not really actually..

Use objects insted of primitives as method parameters

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:06:14 GMT

Don't send entity id's in method calls because sooner or later they will have to do unnecessary calls to the database. Instead, use objects which have a conceptual meaning in that message

Screen monitor calibration for Web designers

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:31:46 GMT

Very good methods of Color management for designers. Free Gamma and Monitor Profile tools here: http://www.quickgamma.de/indexen.html http://quickgamma.de/QuickMonitorProfile/indexen.html

Why SOLID? Gimme an "S"!

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:26:34 GMT

The first in what looks to be series of posts in which Dave Laribee dives into the reasons why you should care about the SOLID principles, and what do they buy you.

Linq Framework Design Guidelines - evolve into optimized frameworks

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:08:03 GMT

This is from the team that brought you 'Framework Design Guidelines' led by Krzysztof Cwalina, an individual we are not shy to recognize as an amazing mind. Look for this content (as shared here from their internal work) in the next of the book For example : defer execution of query operator implementations. The expected behavior of most of the Query Pattern members is that they simply construct a new object which, upon enumeration, produces the elements of the set which match the query. The evaluation time is, then, at enumeration.

Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 2

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:31:02 GMT

Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee wraps up his discussion with hosts Keith and Woody about the growing design practice and how it can be used with the .NET platform.

55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:01:02 GMT

A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine

Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:16:02 GMT

In this post I proudly present the Top 100 of Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I have created this list using four different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, 3) number of Google hits and 4) Jolt awards.

Building a better web forms: Labels in form layouts

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:04:10 GMT

The project that I'm currently working on is really challenging. Together with my team, I am refactoring the presentation layer of some complex web application which user interface caused very bad user experience. One of the things we are working on is a form layout refactoring. In this article I'll show you how we tried to improve common form layouts by using underlined labels.

Detailed code metrics with NDepend

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:01:12 GMT

A while ago, I blogged about code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008. Using profiling and hot path tracking, I measured code performance and was able to react to that. Last week, Patrick Smacchia contacted me asking if I wanted to test his project NDepend. He promised me NDepend would provide more insight in my applications. Let's test that!

When does design happen in Agile?

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:02:31 GMT

Someone at work, new to agile approaches, asked me about when agile projects do design. I thought I would share my answer in case others were still wondering, and to try and explain where experience may have lead to us activities that are not textbook...

Print Designer Doing Web

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:22:01 GMT

A story about good print designers trying to design web sites and not wanting to learn a thing.

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Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:52 GMT

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Web user controls design pattern and data binding part 1

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:05:18 GMT

A lot of people are using user controls in asp because they are very easy to use, have design time support and so on. The purpose of this article is to prevent making mistakes when design a web control and to present a pattern that works for me perfectly

Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Software Engineering

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:16:04 GMT

When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster, he issued a brilliant report with many insights into the nature of engineering. These apply directly to modern software development. Not sure if this one is on topic - it's about general software engineering.

8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:31:02 GMT

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers.