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Implementing Business Logic with Entity Framework

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:22:15 GMT

How you can use Entity framework to do some basic logic when a change happens in related entities or "Associations" as it is called. And Example on how to update of an Order's Total Amount when its Order Details get changed, Added or deleted using Entity Framework.

TNValidate - A Fluent Validation Library for .NET

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:32:50 GMT

TNValidate is a fluent validation library for .Net. It allows you to write validation logic in a form that is readable both by programmers and non-programmers, but still entirely in your .Net language. TNValidate has plenty of built-in validation rules, but also provides an extension mechanism to allow you to easily add your own without having to modify the library itself. The library is released under the MIT License.

EntLib 4.0 - ExceptionPolicy.HandleException is not thread safe

Wed, 06 May 2009 09:28:38 GMT

We've faced this problem recently where Enterprise Library was crashing. Not everywhere... just on this little line of code. We were trying to save to a database asynchronously but if the database was not available, it threw an exception which Enterprise Library was supposed to catch. However, this never happened. Enterprise library crashed on us. Mind you, we didn't figure out this problem until recently because the problem was just happening in production.

Oracle support for ADO.NET Entity Framework

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:13:43 GMT

Download the Beta release of the DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET Entity Framework provider for Oracle today!

A quick review of different UI frameworks

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:21:50 GMT

This post reviews several frameworks used for creating graphical user interfaces. I've decided to create such a review after noticing many programmers take a specific GUI framework for granted, as it is their automatic-choice-by-tool (i.e., they use what they're IDE let them, barely understanding the layers required to develop such a framework, and that there are alternatives they might have chosen if they had knew about).

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.

5 reasons why you should use ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:01:03 GMT

I'll be fair with you readers. I've only toyed with the ASP.NET MVC framework. It looks great as of now but it's the first full blown MVC framework that we have that is backed by Microsoft. However, there is a lot of opposition nowadays that tend to be formulated like this: Why should I use ASP.NET MVC? WebForms works well. Other problems come from the lack of server controls. When a developer look at that and he then wonder why he should have to write HTML and Javascript when before he could have retrieved all that beautiful information with a simple postback.

IL DASM 4.0.11001.1

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:45:34 GMT

This is the IL DASM extracted from .NET Framework 4.0 CTP ILDASM is a tool contained in the .NET Framework SDK. It can be used to disassemble PE files containing Common Intermediate Language code.

Part 2 - Basic of mocking with Moq

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:30:07 GMT

As every mocking framework, except TypeMock which can perform differently, every mocked class can't be sealed and methods that need to be mocked need to be public. If the class is not inheriting from an interface, the method that are being mocked need to be virtual. Once this is cleared... let's show a simple example of a Product having it's price calculated with a Tax Calculator.

Part 1 - Introduction to Moq

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:24:08 GMT

This is the first post of a serie on mocking with Moq. I'll be giving a conference a .NET Montreal Community on February 25th and I though there it would be good reference to anyone attending the @Lunch event.

The Future of .NET Languages

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:01:02 GMT

Wondered why Microsoft always seems to release different language features for each language? Discover how .NET 4.0 will reduce the disparity between C# and VB.NET with some great new features for both languages, plus a new dynamic language runtime and new functional and parallel programming languages.

Getting Started With Microsoft Sync Framework

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:57:10 GMT

The post introduces the Microsoft Sync Framework which will be one of the developers must know tool in the near future.

New Entity Framework / LINQ blog!

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:50:24 GMT

Just a quick recommendation note: One of my colleagues, Julien Hanssens, has started blogging on his experiences with the Entity Framework and LINQ. Here are some links to get you started

Spring.NET 1.2.0 Released

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:00:52 GMT

The Spring.Net framework version 1.2.0 has been released today and it features among others WCF and MSMQ integration as well as 100 bug fixes and enhancements since the 1.1.2 release.

Habanero - Enterprise Application Framework

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:25:21 GMT

Habanero is an open source Enterprise Application Framework for .Net that provides the tools to produce an agile application from the data layer through to the front-end. Released for free under the LGPL license, it persists data to and from the database using object relational mapping (ORM), manages business objects to support a rich domain model, and generates user interfaces to display and edit the mapped data

What is this Managed Extensibility Framework thing all about ?

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:31:12 GMT

Another IoC Container From Microsoft ? Add-in Framework ? What the heck is it ? Sidar tries to answer.

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.

Building a Configuration Binder for MEF with POCO Support

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:16:12 GMT

MEF doesn't support POCO injection and XML Configuration off the shelf. Sidar implements an XML congiguration binding mechanism on top of MEF, and the article gives an insight about what to expect from MEF Extensibility models in detail.

Data Acquisition in .NET Micro Framework 2.0 using SPI

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:04:01 GMT

Data Acquisition using the .NET Micro Framework on Freescale's i.MXS Development Kit for SideShow.

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) at a Glance

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:31:02 GMT

A Hands-On overview to Dependency Injection Managed Extensibility Framework and the first CTP.

Review: Umbrella project

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:51:44 GMT

The Umbrella project from nVentive. I had the chance of sitting with Francois Tanguay in DevTeach and he showed me a bit about it. I was impressed. Umbrella is the ultimate utility library, using all the advantages C# 3.0 can give it. In fact, I think of it a bit like boost for C#.

New Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP Released

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:46:02 GMT

Microsoft has released the latest CTP for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework simplifies development by providing library-based support for introducing concurrency into applications written with any .NET language.

Hartija - CSS Print Framework

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:29:33 GMT

Hartija is "mini" CSS Framework for web printing. The goal of this framework is to improve and ease the creation of "printer friendly" pages with minimum effort.

Robot arm with OpenGL in CSharp

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:00:22 GMT

A computer graphics article about the virtual implementation of a robot arm with the help of OpenGL and C#. The robot arm is operated with the keyboard and mouse support. It's an interesting topic since the importance of projects related to the field of computer graphics in simulations has been growing a lot during the last years.

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:11:01 GMT

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available