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Avoiding Inheritance Dependencies Using Generics and Lambdas

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:24:27 GMT

A nice implementation of the Command pattern using generics and lambdas

What makes me NOT want to leave a company/client/shop

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

What makes me NOT want to leave a company

Metrosexual Developers

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:16:02 GMT

A blog post I wrote on the value and importance of looking good as a software developer.

ASP.NET MVC: Strongly typing form methods with input values

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Description of how you can use LINQ to implement a missing feature of the HtmlHelper class

NHibernate.Linq troubles

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:15:15 GMT

I think I found a bug in NHibernate.Linq, on a parent-child relation ship, trying to select all children that have no parent. Code sample included.

Unit tests are for functionality, not code!

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Unit tests are meant to test functionality, NOT code! That means if you write your unit tests after the fact, you're probably not focusing on the functionality.

I finally get the point of inversion of control

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:31:02 GMT

A quick overview of IoC (with diagrams!).

ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:16:13 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 introduced a new concept that I'm calling "dot" notation expressions off of your ViewData. See how these expressions can be used and how powerful they are.

What's Wrong with this?

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Every time I read a C# book or an article or just a code sample in MSDN I can't stop wondering why don't people use this qualifier unless it's absolutely required? What do we sacrifice code readability for?

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:16:07 GMT

From ScottGu's weblog - "This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release. Today's build includes some additional features not in last month's drop, some nice enhancements/refinements, as well as Visual Studio tool integration and documentation."

HowTo: Configure Microsoft Source Analysis

Mon, 26 May 2008 08:46:03 GMT

Lots of folks are complaining about Microsoft's recently released Source Analysis tool, and how they disagree with certain rules, and how it is not configurable. Well, it is configurable, but they put the dialog in a strange place.

MVC Storefront, Part 12: Mocking

Tue, 27 May 2008 01:16:04 GMT

In this episode I implement mocking so I can test my Authentication action for my UserController. In order to do this, however, I have to mock up the HttpContext... Not much else to say here - it's all about Mocking!

Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

Mon, 26 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

How to look at the baked in rules or how to write your own set of rules for the newly released Microsoft Source Analysis for C#.

Silverlight 2.0 almost WPF

Sat, 24 May 2008 12:03:11 GMT

Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available now. So what's new in this version compared to Silverlight 1.0/1.1? In easy words: It's (almost) as powerful as WPF. This article will help you getting started with Silverlight 2.0 and VS 2008. We will explain the installation of the Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 and create a little Silverlight project using new Layout-functionalities and controls.

ASP.NET MVC - Localization Helpers

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:00:57 GMT

Learn how to easily use localization within an ASP.NET MVC application utilizing similar methods to that of ASP.NET resource expressions. I show 3 different approaches to using localization within your application.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

Working with the web model

Thu, 22 May 2008 18:38:51 GMT

A nice follow up that exactly describes why I don't like WebForms either.

How to Get the File Path of an Executing Assembly?

Thu, 22 May 2008 18:31:18 GMT

Getting the directory, or the file path of an executing assembly can be very tricky. How did you do it? There are three ways, but only one way that is the best

Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots

Wed, 21 May 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Basics of DDD